A case of afebrile pneumonia caused by non-toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 327-329

  Honma, Yasuo ^a   Yoshii, Yuko ^a   Watanabe, Yumiko ^a   Aoki, Nobuki ^a   Komiya, Takako ^b   Iwaki, Masaaki ^b   Arai, Hiroyuki ^c   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^b   Takahashi, Motohide ^a   Kimura, Hirokazu ^b  

^a Shinrakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFPIROME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AFEBRILE PNEUMONIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DIPHTHERIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DIPHTHERIA; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC;

EID: 69449100100     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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