Brevibacterium casei as a cause of brain abscess in an immunocompetent patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4374-4376

  Kumar, V Anil ^a   Augustine, Deepthi ^b   Panikar, Dilip ^a   Nandakumar, Aswathy ^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

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DAPTOMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXYCYCLINE; ETHAMBUTOL; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; ISONIAZID; LINEZOLID; MANNITOL; MEROPENEM; PENICILLIN G; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ACTINOMYCETALES; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN EDEMA; BREVIBACTERIUM; BREVIBACTERIUM CASEI; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENUS; GRAM STAINING; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BREVIBACTERIUM; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 82455186803     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01086-11     Document Type: Article

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