Pacemaker lead infection and related bacteraemia caused by normal and small colony variant phenotypes of Bacillus licheniformis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue PART6, 2013, Pages 940-944

  Idelevich, Evgeny A ^a   Pogoda, Christian A ^a   Ballhausen, Britta ^a   Wüllenweber, Jörg ^a   Eckardt, Lars ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^a   Waltenberger, Johannes ^a   Peters, Georg ^a   Becker, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM COLONY; CASE REPORT; DEVICE INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER LEAD INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; BACILLACEAE INFECTIONS; BACILLUS; BACTEREMIA; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHENOTYPE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 84877858248     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.051987-0     Document Type: Article

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