Catheter-related bacteremia caused by the nocardioform actinomycete Gordonia terrae

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 524-527

  Pham, Audrey S ^a   Dé, Indra ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V ^a   Tarrand, Jeffrey J ^a   Han, Xiang Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; AZTREONAM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CATHETER INFECTION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GORDONIA TERRAE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; THYROID CANCER;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; GORDONIA BACTERIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 0037442362     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/367543     Document Type: Article

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