Colonic polyps and disseminated infection associated with Rhodococcus equi in a patient with AIDS

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1241-1242

  Talanin, Nickolai Y ^b   Donabedian, Haig ^a,b   Kaw, Madhukar ^b   O'Donnell, Edward D ^b   Zaher, Aiman ^b  

^a Department of Medicine and Microbiology/Immunology ^*

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COLON POLYP; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 0031897852     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598360     Document Type: Article

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