Atypical infections in tsunami survivors

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1591-1593

  Garzoni, Christian ^a   Emonet, Stéphane ^a   Legout, Laurence ^a   Benedict, Rilliet ^a   Hoffmeyer, Pierre ^a   Bernard, Louis ^a   Garbino, Jorge ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULTAMICILLIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ABSCESS; ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASIA; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATYPICAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; DISASTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOSIS; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA AFRICANUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCEDOSPORIUM APIOSPERMUM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TSUNAMI;

EID: 25644458455     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1110.050715     Document Type: Article

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