Multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium striatum pneumonia in a heart transplant recipient

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 53-58

  Tarr, Philip E ^a,b,d   Stock, F ^c   Cooke, R H ^a   Fedorko, D P ^c   Lucey, D R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complications; Corynebacterium striatum; Coryneform bacteria; Diphtheroids; Drug resistance; Heart transplantation; Multidrug resistant; Pneumonia; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEPARIN; IMIPENEM; ITRACONAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MOXIFLOXACIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; TACROLIMUS; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORYNEBACTERIUM STRIATUM; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037672788     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3062.2003.00002.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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