Fusobacterium necrophorum causing infective endocarditis and liver and splenic abscesses;Fusobacterium necrophorum causando endocardite infecciosa e abscesso heaṕtico e esplênico

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-172

  Handler, Marc Zac ^a   Miriovsky, Benjamin ^a   Gendelman, Howard E ^c   Sandkovsky, Uriel ^a,b  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Fusobacterium necrophorum; Infective endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; CREATININE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGAR MEDIUM; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EDEMA; FEVER; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HEART MURMUR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; JUGULAR VEIN; LEMIERRE SYNDROME; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER ABSCESS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NAUSEA; OROPHARYNX; OROPHARYNX EDEMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; SPLEEN ABSCESS; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VOMITING;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ADULT; BACTEREMIA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; HUMANS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 79960317024     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652011000300009     Document Type: Review

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