Achromobacter xylosoxidans infection presenting as a pulmonary nodule mimicking cancer

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2751-2754

  Claassen, Stephanie L ^a   Reese, Jason M ^a   Mysliwiec, Vincent ^a   Mahlen, Steven D ^a  

^a Madigan Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; RNA 16S;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSPNEA; GRAM STAINING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UVEITIS; WEDGE RESECTION;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; AGED; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS;

EID: 79959811983     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02571-10     Document Type: Article

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