Clinical and epidemiological features of clostridium perfringens bacteremia: A review of 18 cases over 8 year-period in a tertiary care center in metropolitan Tokyo area in Japan

Internal Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2433-2437

  Fujita, Hiroshi ^a   Nishimura, Shigeko ^a   Kurosawa, Saiko ^a   Akiya, Itsuo ^a   Nakamura Uchiyama, Fukumi ^a   Ohnishi, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN BOKUTOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hemolysis; Sepsis; Shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CEPHEM DERIVATIVE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN; PENICILLIN G; STEROID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARM PAIN; BACKACHE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COLON CANCER; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; EPIGASTRIUM SWELLING; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEMATURIA; HEMOLYSIS; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTESTINE NECROSIS; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIMB PAIN; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL WARD; MELENA; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PANCREAS CANCER; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PNEUMONIA; POLYMYOSITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURGICAL WARD; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WARD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 78549237499     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.49.4041     Document Type: Review

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