A severe case of persistent diarrhoea associated with arcobacter cryaerophilus but attributed to campylobacter sp. and a review of the clinical incidence of Arcobacter spp.

New Microbes and New Infections

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 31-37

  Figueras, M J ^a   Levican, A ^a,b   Pujol, I ^a,c   Ballester, F ^a,c   Quilez, M J Rabada ^d   Gomez Bertomeu, F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI SANT JOAN DE REUS   (Spain)

^d ABS de La Selva del Camp   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arcobacter; Emerging or re emerging diseases; Gastrointestinal disease; Persistent diarrhoea

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; INVASIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ADULT; ALLELE; ARCOBACTER CRYAEROPHILUS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODY DIARRHEA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISK DIFFUSION; DNA EXTRACTION; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEIGHBOR JOINING METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE DATABASE;

ARCOBACTER; ARCOBACTER CRYAEROPHILUS; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER SP.;

EID: 84911973140     PISSN: 20522975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2052-2975.35     Document Type: Article

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