Tatumella ptyseos causing severe human infection: Report of the first two Brazilian cases

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 442-443

  da Costa, Paulo Sérgio Gonçalves ^a,b   de Castro Mendes, Juliana Monteiro ^a   Ribeiro, Geyza Machado ^a  

^a Hospital Monte Sinai Juiz de Fora   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Sepsis; Tatumella ptyseos

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDEMA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LYMPHANGITIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEPSIS; TATUMELLA PTYSEOS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 65449186299     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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