Bacteremia Due to Comamonas Species Possibly Associated with Exposure to Tropical Fish

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 815-817

  Smith, Marcus D ^a   Gradon, Jeremy D ^a  

^a SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; OFLOXACIN;

AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMAMONAS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISH; HUMAN; MALE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEVER; FISH DISEASE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHARYNGITIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSIS;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CAUSALITY; COMAMONAS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEVER; FISH DISEASES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OFLOXACIN; PHARYNGITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0141974886     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000051869.86765.D9     Document Type: Article

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