Nocardia asteroides brain abscesses and meningitis in an immunocompromized 10-year-old child

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 6-7, 2005, Pages 511-513

  Chow, Emilie ^a   Moore, Theodore ^b   Deville, Jaime ^a   Nielsen, Karin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CLINDAMYCIN; CLONIDINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FAMOTIDINE; FOLINIC ACID; GANCICLOVIR; MAGNESIUM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NYSTATIN; PREDNISONE; PYRIMETHAMINE SULFADIAZINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; FEVER; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 22844446110     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540510038965     Document Type: Article

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