Chronic prosthetic hip infection caused by a small-colony variant of Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2530-2534

  Roggenkamp, Andreas ^a   Sing, Andreas ^a   Hornef, Mathias ^a   Brunner, Ulrich ^b   Autenrieth, Ingo B ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COXITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; STRAWBERRY CRINKLE VIRUS;

EID: 0031855337     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.36.9.2530-2534.1998     Document Type: Article

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