Nocardiosis and bronchiectasis. An uncommon association?;Nocardiosis y bronquiectasias. ¿Una asociación infrecuente?

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 62-66

  Ferrer, Adelaida ^a,b   Llorenç, Víctor ^a   Codina, Gemma ^a   De Gracia Roldán, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bronchiectasis; Cystic fibrosis; Microbiologic diagnosis; Nocardia asteroides

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYSTEINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMIPENEM; POLYMYXIN B; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSPLANTATION; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FUNGEMIA; INCIDENTAL FINDING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUPERINFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASPERGILLOSIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BRONCHIECTASIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CULTURE MEDIA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUPERINFECTION;

EID: 16844385225     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13071607     Document Type: Article

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