Primary vibrio vulnificus bacteremia in a liver transplant recipient after ingestion of raw oysters: Caveat emptor

Transplantation

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1061-1063

  Dowdy, Lorraine M ^a   Khan, Farrukh ^a   Regalado, Jacinto ^a   Tzakis, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OYSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS; WOUND INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; FOOD POISONING; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OSTREIDAE; VIBRIO; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033570062     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199910150-00029     Document Type: Article

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