Culture-negative brain abscess with Streptococcus intermedius infection with diagnosis established by direct nucleotide sequence analysis of the 16s ribosomal RNA gene

Internal Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-216

  Saito, Naoko ^a   Hida, Ayumi ^a   Koide, Yuri ^a   Ooka, Tadasuke ^b   Ichikawa, Yaeko ^a   Shimizu, Jun ^a   Mukasa, Akitake ^a   Nakatomi, Hirofumi ^a   Hatakeyama, Shuji ^a   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^b,c   Tsuji, Shoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

16s rRNA; Brain abscess; Streptococcus anginosus group; Streptococcus intermedius

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBAPENEM; CEFMETAZOLE; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CEPHAMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB WEAKNESS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REMISSION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS;

EID: 84856007742     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.51.6419     Document Type: Article

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