Isolation of Aggregatibacter aphrophilus from a patient with acute appendicitis

European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 845-847

  Aye, A M ^a   Law, C W ^a   Sabet, Negar Shafiei ^a   Karunakaran, R ^a   Hanifah, Y A ^a   Jafar, F L ^a   Abubakar, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Acute appendicitis; Aggregatibacter aphrophilus; Haemophilus paraphrophilus

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA;

ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADOLESCENT; AGGREGATIBACTER APHROPHILUS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RNA SEQUENCE; ACUTE DISEASE; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RIBOTYPING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; APPENDIX; DNA, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS PARAPHROPHILUS; HUMANS; MALE; RIBOTYPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 79961201178     PISSN: 11283602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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