Actinobaculum schaalii - invasive pathogen or innocent bystander? A retrospective observational study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tschudin Sutter, Sarah ^a   Frei, Reno ^a   Weisser, Maja ^a   Goldenberger, Daniel ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CATALASE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACTINOBACULUM SCHAALII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPSIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY;

ABSCESS; ACTINOMYCETACEAE; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; COINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84855364108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-289     Document Type: Article

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