Clinical features and treatment outcomes of infections caused by Sphingomonas paucimobilis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 990-992

  Hae, Suk Cheong ^a   Yu, Mi Wi ^a   Soo, Youn Moon ^a   Kang, Cheol In ^a   Jun, Seong Son ^b   Kwan, Soo Ko ^a,b   Doo, Ryeon Chung ^a   Nam, Yong Lee ^a   Song, Jae Hoon ^a,b   Kyong, Ran Peck ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; IMIPENEM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPHINGOMONAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53549120192     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591091     Document Type: Letter

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