Pulmonary nocardiosis: Presentation of three clinical cases;Nocardiosis pulmonar: Presentacion de 3 casos clinicos

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-21

  Ugedo, Javier ^a   Pérez, Alfonso ^a   Orcástegui, José Luis ^a   Ruiz, Carlos ^a   Gómez, Roberto ^a   García, Concepción ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO LOZANO BLESA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bronchoscopy; nocardiosis; sulfonamides

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; PNEUMONIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; DRUG COMBINATION; FATALITY; LUNG MYCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031045103     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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