Central venous catheter-related bacteraemia due to Microbacterium paraoxydans in a patient with no significant immunodeficiency

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 179-180

  Enoch, David A ^a   Richardson, Martin P ^b   Hill, Robert L R ^c   Scorer, Paul M ^a   Sismey, Andrew ^a  

^a PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PETERBOROUGH DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ARMRL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; FATTY ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LETTER; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE;

EID: 79151479123     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.084210     Document Type: Letter

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