Pattern of antimicrobial susceptibility obtained from blood isolates of a rare but emerging human pathogen, Gordonia polyisoprenivorans

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 4991-4993

  Moser, Benjamin D ^a   Pellegrini, Gerald J ^a   Lasker, Brent A ^a   Brown, June M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; BIOSURFACTANT; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S; TIGECYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; GORDONIA; GORDONIA POLYISOPRENIVORANS; HUMAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GORDONIA BACTERIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84865417240     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01251-12     Document Type: Letter

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