Necrotizing pneumonia and empyema caused by Neisseria flavescens infection

Journal of Thoracic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 553-557

  Huang, Ling ^a,b   Ma, Lan ^a,c   Fan, Kun ^a,d   Li, Yang ^a,d   Xie, left ^a,d   Xia, Wenying ^a,d   Gu, Bing ^a,d   Liu, Genyan ^a,d  

^a THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Nanjing Second Hospital   (China)

^c Gaochun Hospital of Nanjing   (China)

^d National Key Clinical Department of Laboratory Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequencing; Empyema; MALDI TOF MS; Neisseria flavescens; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFODIZIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGAR DILUTION; AGAR MEDIUM; ANHELATION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHEST COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETER; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA FLAVESCENS; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTION; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMONIA; SPUTUM DISCOLORATION; SUPPURATION; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA SURGERY; TRANSBRONCHIAL ASPIRATION; VOMITING;

EID: 84900481205     PISSN: 20721439     EISSN: 20776624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2014.02.16     Document Type: Article

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