Two cases of invasive vancomycin-resistant group B streptococcus infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 885-886

  Park, Connie ^a   Nichols, Megin ^b   Schrag, Stephanie J ^c  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; DAPTOMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANKLE PAIN; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSED DRAINAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFICACY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; JOINT SACROILIITIS; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROILIITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SWELLING; TREATMENT DURATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84896725824     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1308504     Document Type: Letter

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