Bilateral endophthalmitis as a primary manifestation of Streptococcus dysgalactiae endocarditis and the role of 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction in identification

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-187

  Wickramasinghe, Nimal ^a   Harris, Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16s rDNA; Bilateral endophthalmitis; Endocarditis; Group G Streptococcus; Streptococcus dysgalactiae

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DNA 16S; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA SEQUENCE; DYSPNEA; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EDEMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 77952744386     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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