Hiding behind confusion: Pleural empyema caused by parvimonas micra

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 356-357

  Poetter, Carsten ^a   Pithois, Christophe ^a   Caty, Sebastien ^a   Petit, Veronique ^a   Combier, Jean Philibert ^a   Mourtialon, Pascal ^a   Mattner, Frauke ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; OFLOXACIN; STREPTOKINASE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE REPORT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOSS OF APPETITE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; NOTE; PARVIMONAS MICRA; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PERIODONTITIS; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURAL CATHETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SOMNOLENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VERY ELDERLY; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84903149178     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2012.016     Document Type: Note

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