Serratia plymuthica sepsis associated with infection of central venous catheter. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Serratia plymuthica was isolated from the blood and from a central venous catheter tip in a 54-year-old man with alcoholic cirrhosis and clinical signs of sepsis. This was the seventh reported isolate of S. plymuthica from a clinical specimen and the first in which the organism was clearly a significant pathogen.

publication date

  • August 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Catheters, Indwelling
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic
  • Serratia

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC269273

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023195209

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/jcm.25.8.1562-1563.1987

PubMed ID

  • 3624450

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 25

issue

  • 8