Disseminated Nocardia asteroides infection in an immunocompetent woman following an arm injury

Infection

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-114

  Benes, J ^a   Viechova, J ^a   Picha, D ^a   Horova, B ^a   Zatloukal, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BULOVKA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFADROXIL; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; OXACILLIN; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY ABSCESS; LIVER ABSCESS; NEPHRECTOMY; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; PUSTULE; SEPSIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SPLENOMEGALY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

ARM INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LIVER ABSCESS; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037361112     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-003-3073-x     Document Type: Article

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