Mycotic brain abscess caused by opportunistic reptile pathogen [8]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 349-350

  Steininger, Christoph ^a   Van Lunzen, Jan ^a   Tintelnot, Kathrin ^b   Sobottka, Ingo ^a   Rohde, Holger ^a   Horstkotte, Matthias Ansver ^a   Stellbrink, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABACAVIR PLUS LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; AMPRENAVIR; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; RITONAVIR; VORICONAZOLE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ACUTE PSYCHOSIS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CHRYSOSPORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPTILE; SEIZURE;

EID: 13744260471     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1102.040915     Document Type: Letter

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