Descending necrotizing mediastinitis associated with Lactobacillus plantarum

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nei, Takahito ^a,c   Inai, Shunta ^a   Mikami, Iwao ^a   Sato, Akira ^a   Okamoto, Junichi ^a   Yokoshima, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakamizo, Munenaga ^a   Haraguchi, Shuji ^a   Sonobe, Kazunari ^a   Saito, Ryoichi ^b  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM); Lactobacilli; Laryngeal cancer; Thoracoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTIAM; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEVER; FUSOBACTERIUM NECROPHORUM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NECK ABSCESS; NECK DISSECTION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX DRAINAGE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABSCESS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS;

EID: 84883087001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-398     Document Type: Article

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