Lactobacillus rhamnosus endocarditis after upper endoscopy

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Aaron, Justin G ^a   Sobieszczyk, Magdalena E ^a   Weiner, Shepard D ^a   Whittier, Susan ^a   Lowy, Franklin D ^a  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Endoscopy; Lactobacillus; Lactobacillus rhamnosus; Yogurt

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AGED; ANEMIA; AORTIC RECONSTRUCTION; AORTIC REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUODENITIS; DYSPNEA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOSCOPY; ERYTHEMA; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; GASTRITIS; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; MALAISE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 85031942900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx085     Document Type: Article

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