Direct detection of Clostridium sordellii in pleural fluid of a patient with pneumonic empyema by a broad-range 16S rRNA PCR

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 6-7, 2007, Pages 617-619

  Foroulis, Christoforos N ^a   Gerogianni, Irini ^a   Kouritas, Vassilios K ^a   Karestsi, Eleni ^a   Klapsa, Dimitra ^a   Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos ^a   Petinaki, Efi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; COUGHING; DNA DETERMINATION; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LUNG RESECTION; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORACOCENTESIS; THORACOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 34347327120     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540601105798     Document Type: Article

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