The world's first case of Serratia liquefaciens intravascular catheter-related suppurative thrombophlebitis and native valve endocarditis [1]

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 559-560

  Mossad, S B ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART MURMUR; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SERRATIA; SERRATIA LIQUEFACIENS;

EID: 0034309815     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2000.00164.x     Document Type: Letter

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