Molecular comparison of bacterial isolates from blood with strains colonizing pharynx and intestine in immunocompromised patients with sepsis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 527-530

  Murono, Koichi ^a   Hirano, Yoshiki ^a   Koyano, Shin ^a   Ito, Kiminari ^a   Fujieda, Kenji ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FECES; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FLORA; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; SPECIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS ORALIS; THROAT; THROAT CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFANT; INTESTINES; MALE; PHARYNX;

EID: 0038434124     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.05076-0     Document Type: Article

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