Aortic homograft endocarditis caused by Campylobacter jejuni

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 4016-4017

  Dinant, Sander ^a   Schurink, Carolina A M ^a   Deckers, Jaap W ^a   Severin, Juliëtte A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; PEGINTERFERON; RIBAVIRIN; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC HOMOGRAFT ENDOCARDITIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CASE REPORT; COXIELLA BURNETII; DIZZINESS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYALGIA; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q FEVER; Q FEVER ENDOCARDITIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; CAMPYLOBACTER INFECTIONS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 80355141489     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00935-11     Document Type: Article

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