An immunocompetent patient presenting with severe septic arthritis due to Ralstonia pickettii identified by molecular-based assays: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Makaritsis, Konstantinos P ^a   Neocleous, Charalambos ^a,b   Gatselis, Nikolaos ^a   Petinaki, Efthimia ^a,b   Dalekos, George N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DAPTOMYCIN; DNA; RNA; RNA 16S;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CASE REPORT; DNA EXTRACTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; JOINT ASPIRATION; KNEE PAIN; LEUKOCYTE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; RNA EXTRACTION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR;

EID: 77953396653     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-8125     Document Type: Article

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