The nosocomial transmission of Helicobacter cinaedi infections in immunocompromised patients

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1733-1739

  Minauchi, Koichiro ^a   Takahashi, Shunji ^a   Sakai, Toshiya ^a   Kondo, Makoto ^a   Shibayama, Keigo ^b   Arakawa, Yoshichika ^b   Mukai, Masaya ^a  

^a SAPPORO CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterenemia; Cellulitis; Febrile neutropenia; Helicobacter cinaedi; Immunocompromised host; Nosocomial transmission

Indexed keywords

ACLARUBICIN; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CARBAPENEM; CARBOPLATIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTARABINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; INFLIXIMAB; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RITUXIMAB; RNA 23S; SULTAMICILLIN; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; UNINDEXED DRUG; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER CINAEDI; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; LEUKOCYTOCLASTIC VASCULITIS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RASH; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPTICEMIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULITIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEPSIS;

EID: 77956223503     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.3649     Document Type: Article

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