Acinetobacter lwoffii septicemia associated with a peripheral intravascular catheter

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 803-804

  Mori, Takehiko ^a   Nakazato, Tomonori ^a   Yamazaki, Rie ^a   Ikeda, Yasuo ^a   Okamoto, Shinichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter lwoffii; Intravascular catheter; Septicemia

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOSPORIN A; DOPAMINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NORADRENALIN; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; TEICOPLANIN;

ACINETOBACTER LWOFFII; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LETTER; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPENIA; SEIZURE; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33746337957     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1580     Document Type: Letter

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