Vibrio vulnificus septicemia in a patient with the hemochromatosis HFE C282Y mutation

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1107-1109

  Gerhard, G S ^a   Levin, K A ^a   Goldstein, J P ^a   Wojnar, M M ^a   Chorney, M J ^a   Belchis, D A ^a  

^a VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IRON METABOLISM; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; SEPTICEMIA; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HEMOCHROMATOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUTATION; OSTREIDAE; SEAFOOD; SKIN DISEASES; VIBRIO INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034909914     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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