Establishing diagnosis of Haemophilus Parainfluenzae as etiology of culture-negative endocarditis using DNA sequence analysis on tissue specimen

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Kelesidis, Theodoros ^a   Kelesidis, Iosif ^b   Lewinski, Michael A ^a   Humphries, Romney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CEFTRIAXONE; GENOMIC DNA; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BODY PIERCING; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LETTER; MENINGITIS; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959355132     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2011.02.026     Document Type: Letter

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