Central Venous Catheter-Related Corynebacterium minutissimum Bacteremia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 786-789

  Rupp, Mark E ^a,c   Stiles, Karen G ^a   Tarantolo, Stefano ^a   Goering, Richard V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIPHTHERIA; FATALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032177615     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141427     Document Type: Article

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