Infection with Nocardia species: Clinical spectrum of disease and species distribution in Madrid, Spain, 1978-2001

Infection

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 338-340

  Pintado, V ^a   Gomez Mampaso E ^a   Fortun J ^a   Meseguer, M A ^a   Cobo, J ^a   Navas, E ^a   Quereda, C ^a   Martin Davila P ^a   Moreno, S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; IMIPENEM; SULFONAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; SPAIN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036450127     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-002-2127-9     Document Type: Article

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