Successful treatment of Mycobacterium fortuitum prosthetic valve endocarditis: Case report

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 629-630

  Vail, George Matthew ^a,b   Kohler, Richard ^b   Steiner, Fred ^c   Donepudi, Rama ^c  

^a WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BALL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC VALVE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 0034115991     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313720     Document Type: Article

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