Are clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa more virulent than hospital environmental isolates in amebal co-culture test?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 823-828

  Fenner, Lukas ^a   Richet, Hervé ^a   Raoult, Didier ^a   Papazian, Laurent ^a   Martin, Claude ^b   La Scola, Bernard ^a  

^a HÔPITAL SAINTE MARGUERITE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Ameba; Hospital acquired infection; Pathogenicity; Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; COCULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG LAVAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 33644605894     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000201878.51343.F1     Document Type: Article

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