Bacteremia caused by a novel Helicobacter species in a 28-year-old man with X-linked agammaglobulinemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4672-4676

  Schwarze Zander, Carolynne ^a   Becker, Sabine ^b   Wenzel, Jörg ^a   Rockstroh, Jürgen K ^a   Spengler, Ulrich ^a   Yassin, Atteyet F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; SULTAMICILLIN; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; X LINKED AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA;

ADULT; AGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOOD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EXTREMITIES; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; UREASE;

HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANADENSIS; HELICOBACTER PULLORUM;

EID: 78650053156     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01350-10     Document Type: Article

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