Actinomyces graevenitzii bacteremia in a patient with alcoholic liver cirrhosis

Anaerobe

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-89

  Hwang, Sang Sun ^a   Park, Soon Deok ^a   Jang, In Ho ^a   Uh, Young ^a   Yoon, Kap Jun ^a   Kim, Hyo Youl ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Actinomyces graevenitzii; Bacteremia; Liver cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATINE KINASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES GRAEVENITZII; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTEREMIA; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CONTINUOUS RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; ECHOGRAPHY; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; BACTEREMIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOMYCES GRAEVENITZII;

EID: 79956354672     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2011.03.002     Document Type: Article

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