Cerebral abscess in an immunodepressed patient;Absceso cerebral en paciente inmunodeprimida

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-42

  Rodríguez Granger, Javier ^a   Olivares, Gonzalo ^a   Turiño, Jesús Damián ^a   Camacho Muñoz, Enrique ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LABORATORY TEST; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 14644442296     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13070409     Document Type: Article

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