Incidental live-saving polymerase chain reaction in a case of prosthetic valve dual-pathogen endocarditis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 144-

  Kaech, C ^a   Raoult, D ^c   Greub, Gilbert ^a,b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOXYCYCLINE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXIELLA BURNETII; DISEASE COURSE; EMBOLISM; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; SEROLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; GENETICS; INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; Q FEVER; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 46249092203     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588847     Document Type: Letter

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