Post-prostate biopsy infection with Escherichia coli ST131 leading to epididymo-orchitis and meningitis caused by gram-negative bacilli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4157-4159

  Assimacopoulos, Aris ^a   Johnston, Brian ^b,c   Clabots, Connie ^b   Johnson, James R ^b,c  

^a Sunwest Infusion and Infectious Disease Specialists   (United States)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; ORCHIECTOMY; ORCHITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; SCROTAL PAIN; SCROTAL SWELLING; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDIDYMITIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; ORCHITIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

BACILLI (CLASS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84869205529     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02026-12     Document Type: Article

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