Evolving concepts regarding the genus Aeromonas: An expanding panorama of species, disease presentations, and unanswered questions

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 332-344

  Michael Janda, J ^a,b   Abbott, Sharon L ^a  

^a Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^b Microbial Diseases Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFIXIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AEROMONAS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BURN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; EPIGLOTTITIS; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SEPSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 17344371663     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/514652     Document Type: Article

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