Vaginal mesh infection due to Bacteroides melaninogenicus: A case report of another emerging foreign body related infection

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1108-1110

  Athanasiou, Stavros ^a,b   Matthaiou, Dimitrios K ^a   Falagas, Matthew E ^a,c,d  

^a ALFA INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AIBS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HENRY DUNANT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; METRONIDAZOLE; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLPOSUSPENSION; COMORBIDITY; CYSTOCELE; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HUMAN; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; RECTOCELE; RECURRENT INFECTION; STRESS INCONTINENCE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URGE INCONTINENCE; URINARY URGENCY; URODYNAMICS; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINITIS;

ADULT; BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; SURGICAL MESH; UTERINE PROLAPSE;

EID: 33845348194     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600664100     Document Type: Article

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