Unusual "flesh-eating" strains of Escherichia coli

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4008-4011

  Shaked, Hila ^a   Samra, Zmira ^a,c   Paul, Michal ^a,c   Madar Shapiro, Liora ^b   Cohen, Jonathan ^a,c   Pitlik, Silvio ^a,c   Bishara, Jihad ^a,c  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HY LABORATORIES LTD   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLAVULANIC ACID; CLINDAMYCIN; CREATINE KINASE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAUNORUBICIN; OPIATE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; STEROID; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CNF1 GENE; CNF2 GENE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOGLOBULINEMIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PURIFICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LEUKOPENIA; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 84869228813     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02316-12     Document Type: Article

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