Endocarditis due to rare and fastidious bacteria

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 177-207

  Brouqui, P ^a   Raoult, D ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CILASTATIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PRISTINAMYCIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; QUINOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART DISEASE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

ABIOTROPHIA; AEROMONAS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; BRUCELLA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM; COXIELLA BURNETII; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; GEMELLA; KLEBSIELLA; LACTOBACILLUS; LEGIONELLA; LISTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM; NEGIBACTERIA; NOCARDIA; PASTEURELLA; POSIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; YERSINIA;

EID: 0035142399     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.14.1.177-207.2001     Document Type: Review

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