Skin infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 511-513

  Frisk, P ^a   Boman, G ^b   Pauksen, K ^b   Petrini, B ^c   Lonnerholm G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation; Cutaneous infection; Mycobacterium szulgai

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; CYTOSTATIC AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; HLA ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ISONIAZID; MEROPENEM; PROTIONAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DISEASE COURSE; DONOR; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HLA MATCHING; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; OTITIS MEDIA; PANCYTOPENIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SWEDEN; T CELL LEUKEMIA; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0242417627     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1703861     Document Type: Article

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