Two cases of multidrug-resistant Nocardia farcinica infection in immunosuppressed patients and implications for empiric therapy

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 142-144

  Hitti, W ^a   Wolff, M ^a  

^a Franklin Square Hospital Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; PATIENT; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 16844363123     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-005-1285-y     Document Type: Article

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