Intestinal spirochetosis: Epidemiology, microbiology, and clinical significance

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 91-96

  Erlandson, Kristine Mace ^a   Klingler, Edna Toubes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 985400 Nebraska Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ARTICLE; BRACHYSPIRA; BRACHYSPIRA AALBORGI; BRACHYSPIRA HYODYSENTERIAE; BRACHYSPIRA INNOCENS; BRACHYSPIRA PILOSICOLI; BRUSH BORDER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; ENTEROBIUS VERMICULARIS; FEVER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE SPIROCHETOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SPIROCHETE; SYMPTOM; TREPONEMA;

EID: 20344372874     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2005.05.002     Document Type: Article

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