Recurrent bacteremia caused by a 'Flexispira'-like organism in a patient with X-linked (Bruton's) agammaglobulinemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 2439-2445

  Weir, Susan ^a   Cuccherini, Brenda ^b   Whitney, Anne M ^c   Ray, Marsha L ^d   MacGregor, John P ^c   Steigerwalt, Arnold ^c   Daneshvar, Maryam I ^c   Weyant, Robbin ^c   Wray, Betty ^e   Steele, John ^e   Strober, Warren ^b   Gill, Vee J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULITIS; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HELICOBACTER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG EDEMA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLEXISPIRA; FLEXISPIRA RAPPINI; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CINAEDI; NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032773377     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.8.2439-2445.1999     Document Type: Article

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