Necrotizing fasciitis and septic shock related to the uncommon gram-negative pathogen Sphingobacterium multivorum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 202-203

  Grimaldi, David ^a,b,c,d   Doloy, A ^a   Fichet, J ^a   Bourgeois, E ^a   Zuber, B ^a   Wajsfisz, A ^a   Mira, J P ^a,b,c,d   Poyart, C ^a,b,c,d   Pene F ^a,b,c,d  

^a AP HP ^*  (France)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ATENOLOL; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FUROSEMIDE; GENTAMICIN; METFORMIN; NORADRENALIN; PENICILLIN G; PERINDOPRIL; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; ROSUVASTATIN; TIMENTIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BONE NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOG BITE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LEG PAIN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORBID OBESITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPHINGOBACTERIUM;

NEGIBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIUM MULTIVORUM;

EID: 84555189739     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05151-11     Document Type: Article

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