Staphylococcus intermedius infections: Case report and literature review

Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Nancy ^a   Neilan, Anne M ^b   Klompas, Michael ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Human.; Infection; Pseudintermedius; Staphylococcus intermedius

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELBOW; ELBOW ARTHROPLASTY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT SWELLING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 84877638132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20367449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/idr.2013.e3     Document Type: Article

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