A male patient with a Campylobacter endocarditis, treatable as Campylobacter fetus following identification;Een man met een Campylobacter-endocarditis, na determinatie behandelbaar als Campylobacter fetus

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 399-403

  Wong, P L ^a,b   Fedder, G ^a   Heilmann, F G C ^a  

^a GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALAISE; RECURRENT DISEASE; ZOONOSIS;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CAMPYLOBACTER FETUS; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WOUNDS, STAB; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0037337683     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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