Peritonitis due to kluyvera ascorbata: Case report and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 399-402

  Yogev, Ram ^a,b,c   Kozlowski, Steven ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LATAMOXEF; PENICILLIN G; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AUTOPSY; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KLUYVERA ASCORBATA; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CASE REPORT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERITONITIS;

EID: 0025338237     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/12.3.399     Document Type: Article

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