Enterococcal-associated lower respiratory tract infections: A case report and literature review

Infection

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 60-64

  Grupper, M ^a   Kravtsov, A ^a   Potasman, I ^a  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CREATININE; ERTAPENEM; ERYTHROMYCIN ESTOLATE; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; ROXITHROMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRONCHOGRAPHY; BROTH DILUTION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COUGHING; CRYOABLATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISK DIFFUSION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; DYSURIA; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; FATIGUE; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LABORATORY TEST; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MALE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEPHROSTOMY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROSTOMY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PNEUMONIA; RARE DISEASE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS; THORAX PAIN; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETER STENT;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 62449274840     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-007-7123-7     Document Type: Article

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