Sepsis, multiple organ failure, and death due to Pandoraea pnomenusa infection after lung transplantation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2255-2257

  Stryjewski, Martin E ^a,c   LiPuma, John J ^b   Messier, Robert H ^a   Reller Jr , L Barth ^a   Alexander, Barbara D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANDORAEA PNOMENUSA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RALSTONIA; SEPSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; SEPSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA COMPLEX; NEGIBACTERIA; PANDORAEA; PANDORAEA PNOMENUSA; RALSTONIA;

EID: 0038289055     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.5.2255-2257.2003     Document Type: Article

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