Arcanobacterium haemolyticum associated with pyothorax: Case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Parija, Subhash Chandra ^a   Kaliaperumal, Venkatesh ^a   Kumar, Saka Vinod ^a   Sujatha, Sistla ^a   Babu, Venkateshwara ^a   Balu, V ^b  

^a JAWAHARLAL INSTITUTE OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Government Hospital for Chest Diseases   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARCANOBACTERIUM HAEMOLYTICUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROTHORAX; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INDIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PUS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX DRAINAGE; TUBERCULOSIS; ACTINOMYCETACEAE; CLASSIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 27244435080     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-5-68     Document Type: Article

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