Recurrent septicemias with Enterococcus faecium

Infection

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 127-128

  Elsner, H A ^a   Drews, D ^a   Burdelski, M ^a   Kaulfers, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BILE SECRETION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES CULTURE; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEPTICEMIA;

ADOLESCENT; AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLIN RESISTANCE; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PENICILLINS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0030983009     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02113593     Document Type: Article

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