First report of treatment of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens bloodstream infection with levofloxacin

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1970-1973

  Kelesidis, Theodoros ^a   Bard, Jennifer Dien ^a   Humphries, Romney ^a   Ward, Kevin ^b   Lewinski, Michael A ^a,b   Uslan, Daniel Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOFLOXACIN; RNA 16S;

AGED; ANAEROBIOSPIRILLUM; ANAEROBIOSPIRILLUM SUCCINICIPRODUCENS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENTITION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAEROBIOSPIRILLUM; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OFLOXACIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANAEROBIOSPIRILLUM SUCCINICIPRODUCENS;

EID: 77951841186     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02478-09     Document Type: Article

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