Fatal spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and necrotizing fasciitis with bacteraemia caused by Bacillus cereus in a patient with cirrhosis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 242-244

  Lee, Ya Ling ^a   Shih, Sheng Dong ^b   Weng, Yu Jong ^b   Chen, Changhua ^a   Liu, Chun Eng ^a  

^a CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Chia Yi Veterans Hospital   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; AMMONIA; AMPICILLIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DIURETIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; HEMOGLOBIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECCHYMOSIS; EDEMA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GASTROENTERITIS; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; JAUNDICE; LEG EDEMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY; SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTEREMIA; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS;

EID: 76049106587     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.011056-0     Document Type: Article

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