Brain abscess due to Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans: Case report

APMIS

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 225-228

  Stepanović, Srdjan ^a   Tošić, Tanja ^b   Savić, Branislava ^a   Jovanović, Milica ^b   Kouas, Guylène ^c   Carlier, Jean Philippe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Inst Infect T D Dr KTodorovic   (Serbia)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Brain abscess; Identification

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17144365417     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2005.apm1130312.x     Document Type: Article

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