Prosthetic valve endocarditis and bloodstream infection due to Mycobacterium chimaera

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1769-1773

  Achermann, Yvonne ^a   Rössle, Matthias ^a   Hoffmann, Matthias ^b   Deggim, Vanessa ^c   Kuster, Stefan ^a   Zimmermann, Dieter R ^a   Bloemberg, Guido ^c   Hombach, Michael ^c   Hasse, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; MOXIFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; RIFABUTIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE REPORT; FEVER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHIMAERA;

EID: 84878502686     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00435-13     Document Type: Article

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