Pneumonia caused by Shigella sonnei in man returned from India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1874-1876

  Mancini, Fabiola ^a   Carniato, Antonella ^b   Ciervo, Alessandra ^a  

^a National Health Institute   (Italy)

^b Presidio Ospedaliero   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTISERUM; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; MEROPENEM; NORFLOXACIN; RNA 16S;

AGED; AGGLUTINATION TEST; AMBIENT AIR; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTERIAL GAS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PH; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISK DIFFUSION; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPIRICISM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FOLLOW UP; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; NEUTROPHILIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RURAL AREA; SHIGELLA SONNEI; SHIGELLOSIS; SPUTUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URBAN AREA; VOMITING;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; ITALY; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TRAVEL;

EID: 70350436645     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1511.090126     Document Type: Letter

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