Clostridium sordellii as a cause of constrictive pericarditis with pyopericardium and tamponade

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3700-3702

  Chaudhry, Rama ^a   Verma, Nishant ^a   Bahadur, Tej ^a   Chaudhary, Parul ^a   Sharma, Pallavi ^a   Sharma, Nidhi ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; LINEZOLID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; COUGHING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; HEART RATE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LEG SWELLING; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYOPERICARDIUM; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CLOSTRIDIUM SORDELLII;

EID: 80053506848     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00933-11     Document Type: Article

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