Bacteremia caused by Aeromonas hydrophila complex in the Caribbean Islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1123-1127

  Hochedez, Patrick ^a   Hope Rapp, Emilie ^b   Olive, Claude ^a   Nicolas, Muriel ^b   Beaucaire, Gilles ^b   Cabié, André ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE FORT DE FRANCE   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pointe a Pitre   (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASTHENIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FATALITY; HEMATOCHEZIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYALGIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHOCK; SKIN INJURY; SNAKEBITE; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; VOMITING; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GUADELOUPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACILLI (CLASS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

ADULT; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GUADELOUPE; HUMANS; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952050334     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0063     Document Type: Article

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