Misidentification of a commensal inactive Escherichia coli as Shigella sonnei by an automated system in a critically ill patient

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 57, Issue 9-10, 2011, Pages 767-769

  Gupta, Soham ^a   Aruna, Chowdappa ^a   Muralidharan, Sethumadhavan ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Sepsis; Shigella sonnei; VITEK

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; DNA FRAGMENT; LACTOSE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COMMENSAL ESCHERICHIA COLI; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE DURATION; DISK DIFFUSION; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEVER; GENE TARGETING; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEG SWELLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLIGURIA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; SHIGELLA SONNEI; TACHYCARDIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEPSIS; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SHIGELLA SONNEI;

EID: 80054792726     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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