Moraxella osloensis bacteremia in a kidney transplant recipient

Transplant International

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1011-1013

  Sifri, Costi D ^a   Brassinga, Ann Karen C ^a   Flohr, Tanya ^a   Kinchen, Jason M ^b   Hazen, Kevin C ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a   Bonatti, Hugo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LINEZOLID; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; PENICILLIN G; TACROLIMUS; TETRACYCLINE; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN;

ANAMNESIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTION; NEPHRECTOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE CULTURE;

BACTEREMIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLACEAE INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 51349117036     PISSN: 09340874     EISSN: 14322277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-2277.2008.00727.x     Document Type: Letter

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