Post-operative bacteremia caused by multidrug-resistant Aerococcus viridans in a patient with gall bladder cancer;Safra kesesi̇ kanseri̇ olan bi̇r hastada operasyon sonrasi geli̇şen çok i̇laca di̇rençli̇ Aerococcus viridans bakteri̇yemi̇si̇

Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 123-126

  Tekin Koruk, Süda ^a   Bayraktar, Mehmet ^a   Özgönül, Abdullah ^a   Tümer, Seray ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aerococcus viridans; Bacteremia; Multidrug resistance

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

AEROCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

AEROCOCCUS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 77749336671     PISSN: 03749096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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