Is Leclercia adecarboxylata a new and unfamiliar marine pathogen?

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1775-1776

  Keren, Yaniv ^a   Keshet, Doron ^a   Eidelman, Mark ^a   Geffen, Yuval ^b   Raz Pasteur, Ayelet ^c   Hussein, Khetam ^c  

^a Rambam Health Care Campus   (Israel)

^b Clinical Microbiology Laboratory   (Israel)

^c Infectious Diseases Unit   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHILL; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; FOOT INJURY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LACERATION; LECLERCIA ADECARBOXYLATA; LEG EDEMA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; WATER POLLUTION; WOUND CARE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND IRRIGATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

CELLULITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84899583991     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03239-13     Document Type: Article

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