Anaerobic bacteria in clinical specimens – frequent, but a neglected lot: A five year experience at a tertiary care hospital

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2017, Pages DC44-DC48

  Shenoy, Padmaja Ananth ^a   Vishwanath, Shashidhar ^a   Gawda, Ashwini ^a   Shetty, Seema ^a   Anegundi, Renuka ^a   Varma, Muralidhar ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjay ^a   Chawla, Kiran ^a  

^a KASTURBA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Abscess; Anaerobe; Gram negative bacilli; Gram positive cocci; Polymicrobial infections

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BODY FLUID; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM; CORNEAL BIOPSY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FINEGOLDIA MAGNA; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS ANAEROBIUS; PUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMEAR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TISSUES; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 85026767050     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2017/26009.10311     Document Type: Article

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