First report of sepsis caused by Rhodococcus corynebacterioides in a patient with myelodysplastic syndrome

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1089-1091

  Kitamura, Yuka ^a   Sawabe, Etsuko ^a   Ohkusu, Kiyofumi ^b   Tojo, Naoko ^a   Tohda, Shuji ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOZOPRAN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MICAFUNGIN; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; RNA 16S; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DEATH; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS CORYNEBACTERIOIDES; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPSIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; PHYLOGENY; RHODOCOCCUS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84857418820     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.06279-11     Document Type: Article

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