Streptobacillus moniliformis as the causative agent in spondylodiscitis and psoas abscess after rooster scratches

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2820-2821

  Dubois, Damien ^a   Robin, Frédéric ^a   Bouvier, Damien ^a   Delmas, Julien ^a   Bonnet, Richard ^a   Lesens, Olivier ^b   Hennequin, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF CLERMONT FERRAND   (France)

^b SERVICE DE RHUMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; RNA 16S; TEICOPLANIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSOAS ABSCESS; ROOSTER; SCRATCHING; STREPTOBACILLUS MONILIFORMIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DISKITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INJURY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKIN; STREPTOBACILLUS;

STREPTOBACILLUS MONILIFORMIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHICKENS; DISCITIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSOAS ABSCESS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SKIN; STREPTOBACILLUS;

EID: 53149125369     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00744-08     Document Type: Article

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