Rhodococcus bacteremia in cancer patients is mostly catheter related and associated with biofilm formation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Al Akhrass, Fadi ^a   Al Wohoush, Iba ^a   Chaftari, Anne Marie ^a   Reitzel, Ruth ^a   Jiang, Ying ^a   Ghannoum, Mahmoud ^b   Tarrand, Jeffrey ^a   Hachem, Ray ^a   Raad, Issam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; POLYURETHAN; RIFAMPICIN; SULBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL LOCK SOLUTION; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; CANCER PATIENT; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS CORYNEBACTEROIDES; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

BACTEREMIA; BIOFILMS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NEOPLASMS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 84863272321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032945     Document Type: Article

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