Gordonia bronchialis bacteremia and pleural infection: Case report and review of the literature

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1662-1666

  Johnson, Jennifer A ^a   Onderdonk, Andrew B ^a   Cosimi, Lisa A ^a   Yawetz, Sigal ^a   Lasker, Brent A ^b   Bolcen, Shanna J ^b   Brown, June M ^b   Marty, Francisco M ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANASTROZOLE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; TAMOXIFEN; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GORDONIA; GORDONIA BRONCHIALIS; GORDONIA OTITIDIS; GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS; GORDONIA SPUTI; GORDONIA TERRAE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDWELLING CATHETER; MASTECTOMY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA DISEASE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLEURISY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); GORDONIA (ACTINOMYCETE); GORDONIA BRONCHIALIS;

EID: 79953868387     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02121-10     Document Type: Article

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