Atypical presentation of systemic nocardiosis and successful treatment with meropenem

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 709-710

  Velasco, N ^a   Farrington, K ^a   Greenwood, R ^a   Rahman, A F M S ^a  

^a LISTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAPD; CNS infection; Immunosuppression; Meropenem; Nocardiosis; Septic arthritis; Transplant

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MEROPENEM; SULFONAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; THIENAMYCIN DERIVATIVE; URINARY TRACT ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; HUMAN; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; SHOULDER;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, URINARY; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; SHOULDER JOINT; THIENAMYCINS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0029665842     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.ndt.a027368     Document Type: Article

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