Causative agents of liver abscess in HIV-seropositive patients: A 10-year case series in Thai hospitalized patients

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 115-

  Wiwanitkit, Viroj ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER AMEBIASIS; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROCONVERSION; THAILAND;

ADULT; AGED; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LIVER ABSCESS, AMEBIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THAILAND;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 20844440497     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0049475054036904     Document Type: Article

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