Co-infection with two Chlamydophila species in a case of fulminant myocarditis

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 623-626

  Walder, Gernot ^a,g   Gritsch, Walter ^b   Wiedermann, Christian J ^b   Pölzl, Gerhard ^b   Laufer, Günther ^a   Hotzel, Helmut ^c   Berndt, Angela ^c   Pankuweit, Sabine ^d   Theegarten, Dirk ^e   Anhenn, Olaf ^e   Oehme, Albrecht ^f   Dierich, Manfred P ^a   Würzner, Reinhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^f MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^g NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac Failure; Chlamydophila pneumoniae; Chlamydophila Psittaci; Co Infection; Myocarditis; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MYOCARDITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SEPTICEMIA; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; CHLAMYDOPHILA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYOCARDITIS;

EID: 33846414328     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000254726.57339.C8     Document Type: Article

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