Implantable Defibrillator Pocket Infection and Bacteremia Caused by Nocardia nova Complex Isolate

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 5325-5326

  Boell, Keith ^a   Gotoff, Robert ^a   Foltzer, Michael ^a   Storm, Randle ^a   Bourbeau, Paul P ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAMANDOLE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE DEFIBRILLATOR POCKET INFECTION; INFECTION; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA NOVA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA NOVA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0242593763     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.11.5325-5326.2003     Document Type: Article

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