Case series: Elizabethkingia meningosepticum

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1550-1551

  Dias, Meena ^a   Fernandes, Anisha ^a   Furtado, Zevita ^a  

^a FATHER MULLER MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Elizabethkingia meningosepticum; Meningitis; Nosocomial infection; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULPERAZON; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICUM; ELIZABETHKINGIA MENINGOSEPTICUM INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FOOT EDEMA; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SCLEROTHERAPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINA TUMOR; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY;

ELIZABETHKINGIA;

EID: 84869993434     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2012/4076.2557     Document Type: Article

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