Report of two fatal cases of Mycobacterium mucogenicum central nervous system infection in immunocompetent patients

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 837-840

  Adékambi, Toïdi ^a   Foucault, Cedric ^a   La Scola, Bernard ^a   Drancourt, Michel ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; PERFALGAN; PIPEMIDIC ACID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA; RIFAMPICIN; SPARFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MUCOGENICUM;

EID: 33644928499     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.44.3.837-840.2006     Document Type: Article

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