Listeria monocytogenes peritonitis in cirrhotic patients: First description in Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 291-293

  Toyoshima, Marcos Tadashi Kakitani ^a,b   Apanavicius, André ^a   Soeiro, Alexandre De Matos ^a   De Almeida, Gisele Madeira Duboc ^a   Arai, Milton Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Listeria monocytogenes; Pleural effusion; Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION;

EID: 33750712732     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652006000500010     Document Type: Article

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