Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae septic shock and meningitis complicating chronic graft versus host disease: A case report and review of the literature

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 152-155

  Haddad, Philip A ^a   Repka, Tanya L ^a   Weisdorf, Daniel J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Mayo Mail Code 609   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENICILLIN V; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTIC SHOCK; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; LEG; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PENICILLINS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037159556     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01154-3     Document Type: Article

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