Successful treatment of meningoencephalitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with intrathecal vamncomycin in an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant recipient

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-67

  Matsubara, H ^a   Makimoto, A ^a   Higa, T ^a   Kawamoto, H ^a   Kanda, Y ^a   Kami, M ^a   Tanosaki, R ^a   Mineishi, S ^a   Ohira, M ^a   Takaue, Y ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meningoencephalitis; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Peripheral blood allogeneic stem cell transplantation; Sepsis; Vancomycin

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AZTREONAM; BUSULFAN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; HABEKACIN; METHOTREXATE; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; PIPERACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0037261791     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703799     Document Type: Article

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