Leuconostoc bacteremia after liver transplantation: Another cause of vancomycin resistant gram-positive infection

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 322-324

  Espinoza, Ricardo ^a   Kusne, Shimon ^a,b,c   Pasculle, A William ^a   Wada, Suzanne ^a,c   Fung, John ^b   Rakela, Jorge ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Leuconostoc; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUCONOSTOC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLINDAMYCIN; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUCONOSTOC; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PERITONITIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0030811202     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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