The Clinical Management and Outcome of Nail Salon - Acquired Mycobacterium fortuitum Skin Infection

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 38-44

  Winthrop, Kevin L ^a,b   Albridge, Kim ^e   South, David ^e   Albrecht, Peggy ^d   Abrams, Marcy ^c   Samuel, Michael C ^b   Leonard, Wendy ^c   Wagner, Joanna ^b   Vugia, Duc J ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Division of Communicable Disease Control   (United States)

^c Santa Cruz Public Libraries   (United States)

^d Santa Cruz Medical Clinic   (United States)

^e California Dept of Health Services ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MINOCYCLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NAIL INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BEAUTY CULTURE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; NAILS; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 0346422350     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380459     Document Type: Article

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