Adrenal insufficiency, recurrent bacteremia, and disseminated abscesses caused by nocardia asteroides in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-51

  Arabi, Yaseen ^a,b   Fairfax, Marilynn R ^a   Szuba, Mary Jo ^a   Crane, Lawrence ^a   Schuman, Paula ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ABSCESS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029866956     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0732-8893(95)00249-9     Document Type: Article

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