Sepsis in a Renal Transplant Recipient due to Citrobacter braakii

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 796-798

  Gupta, Rajiv ^b   Rauf, Shariq J ^b   Singh, Sonali ^b   Smith, Jason ^b   Agraharkar, Mahendra L ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISONE; SULFANILAMIDE; TOBRAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; OFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CADAVER DONOR; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CITROBACTER; CITROBACTER BRAAKII; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY GRAFT; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RASH; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT FAILURE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MIDDLE AGED; SEROTYPING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; AZTREONAM; BACTEREMIA; CELLULITIS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OFLOXACIN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SEROTYPING; TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141940218     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000051068.52066.E2     Document Type: Article

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