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Itzhak Brook
Researcher at Georgetown University
Publications - 453
Citations - 15719
Itzhak Brook is an academic researcher from Georgetown University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Anaerobic bacteria & Peptostreptococcus. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 448 publications receiving 14710 citations. Previous affiliations of Itzhak Brook include Boston Children's Hospital & University of Washington.
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Aerobic and anaerobic microbiology of necrotizing fasciitis in children.
TL;DR: Findings illustrate the polymicrobial aerobic‐anaerobic flora of NF in children and include Streptococcus pyogenes, which was present alone in two (25%) instances, and mixed aerobic and anaerobic bacteria were isolated in six (75%).
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Clostridial infection in children
TL;DR: Most Bacteroides and Escherichia coli isolates with clostridia were from abdominal infections and skin and soft tissue infections adjacent to the rectal area; most pigmented Prevotella and Porphyromonas isolates were from oropharyngeal, pulmonary, and head and neck sites.
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β-Lactamase—Producing Bacteria Recovered After Clinical Failures With Various Penicillin Therapy
TL;DR: In treatment of orofacial and respiratory tract infections, the clinician should consider the presence of beta-lactamase-producing Bacteroides sp and S aureus as a possible cause of clinical failure with various penicillin therapies.
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The bacteriology of salivary gland infections.
TL;DR: The parotid gland is the salivary gland most commonly affected by inflammation, however, infection of thesalivary glands can occur in any of the glands.
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Bacteroides melaninogenicus. Its recovery from tonsils of children with acute tonsillitis.
Itzhak Brook,Alan E. Gober +1 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest a possible pathogenic role for the B melaninogenicus group in acute tonsillar infection in children.