Actinobaculum schaalii an emerging pediatric pathogen?

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zimmermann, Petra ^a   Berlinger, Livia ^b,c   Liniger, Benjamin ^a   Grunt, Sebastian ^a   Agyeman, Philipp ^a   Ritz, Nicole ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Bio Analytica AG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Actinobaculum schaalii; Antimicrobial susceptibility; Children; Emerging infection; Gram positive; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ESTERASE; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACULUM SCHAALII; ACTINOBACULUM SCHAALII INFECTION; ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIURIA; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYSTOMETRY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MICROSCOPY; NEUROGENIC BLADDER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYURIA; RNA SEQUENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ACTINOMYCETACEAE; AMOXICILLIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGOMYELOCELE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY BLADDER, NEUROGENIC; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE;

EID: 84865311282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-12-201     Document Type: Article

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