Successful treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal peritonitis with linezolid in a kidney transplant patient: A case report and review of the literature

Peritoneal Dialysis International

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-72

  Tedla, Fasika M ^a   Salifu, Moro ^a   Friedman, Eli A ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHRECTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PERITONEAL CATHETER; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 3042775036     PISSN: 08968608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089686080402400109     Document Type: Article

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