Weissella confusa: A rare cause of vancomycinresistant Gram-positive bacteraemia

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1539-1541

  Kumar, Anil ^a   Augustine, Deepthi ^b   Sudhindran, S ^a   Kurian, Anu M ^a   Dinesh, Kavitha R ^a   Karim, Shamsul ^a   Philip, Rosamma ^b  

^a AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Department of Physics   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; RNA 16S; SULPERAZON;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPSIS; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; WEISSELLA; WEISSELLA CONFUSA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VANCOMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE; WEISSELLA;

EID: 80053139182     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.027169-0     Document Type: Article

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