Eikenella corrodens in head and neck infections

Journal of Infection

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-348

  Udaka, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hiraki, Nobuaki ^a   Shiomori, Teruo ^a   Miyamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Fujimura, Takeyuki ^a   Inaba, Tsuyoshi ^a   Suzuki, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Eikenella corrodens; Head and neck; Infection; Streptococcus milleri group; Tonsil

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFCAPENE PIVOXIL; CEFDINIR; CEFDITOREN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFPIROME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHEM DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PANIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOSUFLOXACIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG CHOICE; EAR INFECTION; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MICROSCOPY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PHARYNGITIS; RISK FACTOR; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLECTOMY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI GROUP; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 33947179384     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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