Fatal aspiration pneumonia as a complication of fecal microbiota transplant

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 136-137

  Baxter, Melissa ^a   Ahmad, Tariq ^a   Colville, Alaric ^a   Sheridan, Ray ^a  

^a ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FIDAXOMICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY PULMONARY ANGIOGRAM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATALITY; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL HISTORY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPUTUM CULTURE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; PATHOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATAL OUTCOME; FECAL MICROBIOTA TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION;

EID: 84953849261     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ247     Document Type: Letter

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