Nocardial infection in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 716-720

  Pintado, V ^a   Gomez Mampaso E ^b   Cobo, J ^a   Quereda, C ^a   Meseguer, M A ^b   Fortun J ^a   Navas, E ^a   Moreno, S ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV; Nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CEFOTAXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; PENTAMIDINE; SULFADIAZINE; SULFONAMIDE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NOCARDIA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII;

EID: 0041525426     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0691.2003.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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