High mortality associated with Catabacter hongkongensis bacteremia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2239-2243

  Lau, Susanna K P ^a,b   Fan, Rachel Y Y ^b   Lo, Hoo Wing ^b   Ng, Ricky H Y ^c   Wong, Samson S Y ^a,b   Li, Iris W S ^b   Wu, Alan K L ^d   Ng, Kenneth H L ^e   Tseung, Steven ^c   Lee, Rodney A ^d   Fung, Kitty S C ^c   Que, Tak Lun ^e   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a,b   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a,b  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^e TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ARABINOSE; CATALASE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; KANAMYCIN; MANNOSE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN; XYLOSE;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES INFECTION; CATABACTER HONGKONGENSIS; CATABACTER HONGKONGENSIS BACTEREMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEPSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDICITIS; BACTEREMIA; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LITHIASIS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862731799     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00128-12     Document Type: Article

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