Serratia ficaria: A misidentified or unidentified rare cause of human infections in fig tree culture zones

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 3266-3272

  Anahory, T ^a   Darbas, H ^a   Ongaro, O ^a   Jean Pierre, H ^a   Mion, P ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFALOTIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; GELATINASE; LACTOSE; NALIDIXIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RHAMNOSE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECOSYSTEM; EMPYEMA; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA; SERRATIA FICARIA; TREE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FICARIA; FICUS (ANGIOSPERM); NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA FICARIA;

EID: 0031697728     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.11.3266-3272.1998     Document Type: Article

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