Recurrent Listeria monocytogenes aortic graft infection: Confirmation of relapse by molecular subtyping

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-67

  Rohde, Holger ^a   Horstkotte, Matthias A ^a   Loeper, Siobhan ^a   Aberle, Jens ^a   Jenicke, Lars ^a   Lampidis, Robert ^b   Mack, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GENTAMICIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; SULTAMICILLIN; THIAZIDE DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR SUBTYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RELAPSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0842303120     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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