Genomic species identification is important to delineate the pathological characteristics of Acinetobacter in tunnelled, cuffed haemodialysis catheter-related bacteraemia

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 936-938

  Chen, Te Li ^a   Chuang, Chiao Lin ^a   Siu, Leung Kei ^b   Fung, Chang Phone ^c   Cho, Wen Long ^c  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Bacteraemia; Cuffed haemodialysis catheter; Tunnelled

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER CALCOACETICUS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CHILL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; GALLBLADDER HEMORRHAGE; GENOMICS; GOUT; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SEPSIS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VOMITING;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 33847609111     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl785     Document Type: Article

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