Pulmonary Actinomyces graevenitzii infection presenting as organizing pneumonia diagnosed by PCR analysis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1156-1158

  Fujita, Yu ^a   Iikura, Motoyasu ^a   Horio, Yuko ^a   Ohkusu, Kiyofumi ^b   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; RNA 16S;

ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NIGHT SWEAT; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ACTINOMYCES GRAEVENITZII INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; AGED; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOPSY; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CRYPTOGENIC ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864091242     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.040394-0     Document Type: Article

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