Isolation of Abiotrophia adiacens from a brain abscess which developed in a patient after neurosurgery

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 769-771

  Biermann, C ^a,b   Fries, G ^a   Jehnichen, P ^a   Bhakdi, S ^a   Husmann, M ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GRANULICATELLA ADIACENS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ABIOTROPHIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GRANULICATELLA ADIACENS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032996719     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.37.3.769-771.1999     Document Type: Article

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