Life-threatening invasive Helcococcus kunzii infections in intravenous-drug users and ermA-mediated erythromycin resistance

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 6205-6208

  Woo, Patrick C Y ^a   Tse, Herman ^a   Wong, Samson S Y ^a   Tse, Cindy W S ^b   Fung, Ami M Y ^a   Tam, Dorothy M W ^a   Lau, Susanna K P ^a   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b KWONG WAH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; ERMA GENE; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HELCOCOCCUS KUNZII; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; JAUNDICE; MALAISE; MALE; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN ULCER; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ERYTHROMYCIN; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELCOCOCCUS KUNZII; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 30744472977     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.43.12.6205-6208.2005     Document Type: Article

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