Chromobacterium violaceum infections in 13 non-human primates

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-114

  Liu, David X ^a   Didier, Peter J ^a   Plauche, Gail B ^a  

^a TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromobacterium violaceum; Macaca mulatta; Macaca nemestrina; Papio papio

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BABOON; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BREEDING; CHROMOBACTERIOSIS; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER ABSCESS; LUNG ABSCESS; MACACA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METRITIS; MYOCARDITIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDITIS; PERITONITIS; PLEURISY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTICEMIA; SPLEEN DISEASE; THROMBOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOBACTERIUM; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; LOUISIANA; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY DISEASES; PAPIO; SEPSIS;

ANIMALIA; CHROMOBACTERIUM VIOLACEUM; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; PAPIO; PAPIO PAPIO; PRIMATES;

EID: 84858796841     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: 16000684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0684.2011.00529.x     Document Type: Article

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