Bartonella (rochalimaea) quintana bacteremia in inner-city patients with chronic alcoholism

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 424-428

  Spach, David H ^a   Root, Richard K ^a   Stamm, Walter E ^a   Dougherty, Molly J ^b   Larson, Ann M ^b   Coyle, Marie B ^b   Kanter, Andrew S ^c   Brenner, Don J ^d   Swaminathan, Bala ^e   Matar, Ghassan M ^e   Welch, David F ^f  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Emerging Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases Branch ^*  (United States)

^e Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTETAN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; NAFCILLIN; PENICILLIN G; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BARTONELLACEAE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART SURGERY; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RICKETTSIOSIS; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; BACTEREMIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA QUINTANA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRENCH FEVER; URBAN HEALTH; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0028878332     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199502163320703     Document Type: Article

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