Streptococcus suis endocarditis and colon carcinoma: A case report

Clinical Colorectal Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 226-228

  Voutsadakis, Ioannis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anemia; Antibiotics; Streptococcus bovis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER STAGING; CECUM CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON CARCINOMA; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FATIGUE; FEVER; GASTRITIS; HEMICOLECTOMY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MICROCYTIC ANEMIA; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PIG FARMING; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS SUIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750175415     PISSN: 15330028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CCC.2006.n.041     Document Type: Article

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