Cronobacter infections not from infant formula, Taiwan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 167-168

  Tsai, Hsih Yeh ^a,b   Liao, Chun Hsing ^a   Huang, Yu Tsung ^a   Lee, Ping Ing ^b   Hsueh, Po Ren ^b  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S;

ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTIFICIAL MILK; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRONOBACTER; DISK DIFFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CRONOBACTER SAKAZAKII; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TAIWAN;

EID: 84871624837     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1901.120774     Document Type: Letter

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