What workup is sufficient to determine if an aortic aneurysm is "mycotic/infectious" or not, in that you would not prescribe empiric antibiotic therapy?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
It depends on your index of suspicion. If the clinical picture looks consistent with mycotic aneurysm, this is the one time where I have found karius testing to be helpful, particularly with nutritionally-variant strep species which can be tough to culture.