Streptomyces pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient: a case report and literature review

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 459-462

  Kofteridis, Diamantis P ^a   Maraki, Sofia ^a   Scoulica, Efstathia ^a   Tsioutis, Constantinos ^a   Maltezakis, Georgios ^a   Gikas, Achilleas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Streptomyces; Streptomyces lanatus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; DOXYCYCLINE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG LAVAGE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES LANATUS;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 36549059087     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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