Pulmonary malacoplakia associated with Rhodococcus equi infection in patients with AIDS: Case report and review

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1334-1336

  Fernández Guerrero, Manuel L ^a,b   Ramos, José M ^a   Renedo, Guadalupe ^a   Gadea, Ignacio ^a   Alix, Antonio ^a  

^a Division of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Spain)

^b Hospital UniversitarioFundación Jiménez Díaz   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; MACROLIDE; QUINOLONE; RIFAMPICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG LAVAGE; MALACOPLAKIA; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH;

EID: 0032979247     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517792     Document Type: Article

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