Clinical features and successful recovery from disseminated nocardiossis after BMT

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-82

  Machado, C M ^a,b   Macedo, M C ^a   Castelli, J B ^b   Ostronoff, M ^a   Sliva, A C ^a   Zambon, E ^a   Massumoto, C ^a   Chamone, D F ^a   Dulley, F L ^a  

^a FUNDAÇÃO PRÓ SANGUE HEMOCENTRO DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Nocardia; bone marrow transplant

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MINOCYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG INJURY; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT;

EID: 0031034087     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1700616     Document Type: Article

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