Three cases of severe invasive infections caused by campylobacter rectus and first report of fatal c. rectus infection

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1687-1691

  Lam, Jimmy Y W ^a,c,h   Wu, Alan K L ^a,c,d   Ngai, Dickson C ^a   Teng, Jade L L ^c,d   Wong, Elsa S Y ^b   Lau, Susanna K P ^c,d,e,f,g   Lee, Rodney A ^a,c,d   Woo, Patrick C Y ^c,d,e,f,g  

^a Departments of Microbiology   (Hong Kong)

^b Departments of Medicine   (Hong Kong)

^c PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d Department of Microbiology ^*  (Hong Kong)

^e THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f Research Centre of Infection and Immunology   (Hong Kong)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; METRONIDAZOLE; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER RECTUS; CAMPYLOBACTERIOSIS; CASE REPORT; CHEST INFECTION; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DENTAL CARIES; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPYEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATALITY; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GINGIVITIS; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALAISE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PTOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCULAR ANEURYSM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORAX PAIN; TROCHLEAR NERVE DISEASE;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER RECTUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; EMPYEMA, SUBDURAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CAMPYLOBACTER RECTUS;

EID: 79953867839     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02487-10     Document Type: Article

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