Desulfovibrio desulfuricans bacteremia in a patient hospitalized with acute cerebral infarction: Case report and review

Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 274-277

  Hagiwara, Shigehiro ^a   Yoshida, Atsushi ^b   Omata, Yuki ^a   Tsukada, Yumiko ^a   Takahashi, Hirohumi ^a   Kamewada, Hitoshi ^a   Koike, Saiko ^b   Okuzumi, Katsuko ^b   Hishinuma, Akira ^b   Kobayashi, Kunihiko ^c   Nakano, Masayasu ^a  

^a Imperial Foundation Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Bacteremia; Desulfovibrio desulfuricans; Diarrhea; Hospitalized patients

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ACUTE CEREBRAL INFARCTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DIARRHEA; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCUBATION TIME; INTESTINE FLORA; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VERNER MORRISON SYNDROME; VERY ELDERLY; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DESULFOVIBRIONACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE;

EID: 84903607967     PISSN: 1341321X     EISSN: 14377780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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