Mycobacterium fortuitum Endocarditis and Meningitis after Balloon Mitral Valvotomy

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1022-1023

  Kuruvila, M T ^a   Mathews, P ^a   Jesudason, Mary ^a   Ganesh, Alka ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE REPORT; CROSS INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0033206322     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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