Purulent pericarditis with greenish pericardial effusion caused by Shewanella algae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2817-2819

  Tan, Che Kim ^a,b   Lai, Chih Cheng ^c   Kuar, Wei Khie ^a   Hsueh, Po Ren ^d,e  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Yi Min Hospital   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ALGAE; STOMACH CANCER; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

SHEWANELLA ALGAE;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

AGED; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PHYLOGENY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEWANELLA; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 53149087112     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01018-08     Document Type: Article

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