Community-acquired, fatal extended spectrum beta lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae splenic abscess and sepsis [5]

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 328-329

  Thambu, D ^a   Pichamuthu, K ^a   Varghese, G M ^a   Subramanian, S ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZLOCILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFALEXIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; DOXYCYCLINE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; ISEPAMICIN; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE MARROW CULTURE; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRESCRIPTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SPLEEN ABSCESS; TYPHOID FEVER; VOMITING;

ABSCESS; ADULT; BETA-LACTAMASES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; SEPSIS; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 33845265887     PISSN: 00223859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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