Spontaneous pyogenic spondylitis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1121-1124

  Kosai, Kosuke ^a,b,c   Seki, Masafumi ^a,b,c   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^a,b   Imamura, Yoshifumi ^a,b   Nakamura, Shigeki ^a,b   Kurihara, Shintaro ^a,b   Izumikawa, Koichi ^a,b   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^a,b   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a,b   Kohno, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KITAKYUSHU CITY YAHATA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Blood culture; Klebsiella pneumoniae; MRI; Spondylitis

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; INSULIN ZINC SUSPENSION; ISOPHANE INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEDTIME DOSAGE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOCAPNIA; INFLAMMATION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MORNING DOSAGE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; SPONTANEOUS PYOGENIC SPONDYLITIS; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPONDYLITIS;

EID: 48049094389     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0937     Document Type: Article

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