Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis due to Listeria monocytogenes: Importance of enrichment culture

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 835-836

  Jayasinghe, Saroj ^a   Connor, Martin ^b   Donaldson, Shona ^a   Austin, Hannah ^a   Foster, Adele ^b  

^a NHS DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DROWSINESS; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PERITONEAL FLUID; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREMOR;

AGED; ASCITIC FLUID; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CULTURE MEDIA; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, BILIARY; PERITONITIS;

EID: 77956903758     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2009.074641     Document Type: Article

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