Helicobacter canis Bacteremia in a patient with fever of unknown origin

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1046-1048

  Abidi, Maheen Z ^a   Wilhelm, Mark P ^a   Neff, Jadee L ^b   Hughes, John G ^b   Cunningham, Scott A ^b   Patel, Robin ^a,c  

^a Division of Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^b Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology ^*  (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CAT; CHILL; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DOG; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAM STAINING; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER CANIS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; RISK FACTOR; SPLENECTOMY; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BACTEREMIA; COMMON VARIABLE IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HELICOBACTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84874037396     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02548-12     Document Type: Article

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