Enterobacter cloacae infection of an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene femoral-popliteal bypass graft: A case report

Journal of Medical Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Musil, Ian ^a,b   Jensen, Vanessa ^a,b   Schilling, Jolyon ^b   Ashdown, Boyd ^b   Kent, Tyler ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Tucson Hospitals Medical Education Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFCLIDIN; CEFEPIME; CEFPIROME; CEFTAZIDIME;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ENDARTERECTOMY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MALE; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; POLITEF IMPLANT; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 77951953669     PISSN: 17521947     EISSN: 17521947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1947-4-131     Document Type: Article

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