Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Acinetobacter spp: A rare case and literature review

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 333, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 197-199

  Rizos, Ioannis ^a   Tsiodras, Sotirios ^b   Papathanasiou, Sotirios ^a   Rigopoulos, Angelos ^a   Barbetseas, John ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Aortic; Endocarditis; Prosthetic valve

Indexed keywords

GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEVER; HEART MURMUR; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; REOPERATION; THIENAMYCINS; TOBRAMYCIN;

EID: 34547497850     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e31803193c4     Document Type: Article

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