Nocardiosis in cancer patients

Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 388-397

  Torres, Harrys A ^a   Reddy, Bhavananda T ^a   Raad, Issam I ^a   Tarrand, Jeffrey ^a   Bodey, Gerald P ^a   Hanna, Hend A ^a   Rolston, Kenneth V I ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; COTRIMOXAZOLE; STEROID; TETRACYCLINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD DISEASE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; NOCARDIOSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIRENAL ABSCESS; PLEOMORPHIC ADENOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEXAS;

EID: 0036736347     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005792-200209000-00004     Document Type: Article

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