Isolation of coryneform bacteria from blood cultures of patients at a University Hospital in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1073-1079

  Babay, Hanan A ^a   Kambal, Abdelmageed M ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROBACTER; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BREVIBACTERIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM AFERMENTANS; CORYNEBACTERIUM AURIS; CORYNEBACTERIUM PROPINQUUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX DISEASE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 4544251240     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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