Outbreak of Nocardia farcinica infection with the same pattern in randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 502-506

  Kachi, Shusei ^a   Okazaki, M ^a   Takeda, H ^a   Igarashi, H ^a   Kobayashi, O ^a   Watanabe, H ^a   Nakata, K ^a   Kawai, S ^a   Aoshima, M ^a   Watanabe, T ^a   Goto, H ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nocardia farcinica; Nosocomial infection; RAPD

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; PREDNISOLONE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAM STAINING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SKIN INCISION; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; WARD;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 33644971874     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2005.02.004     Document Type: Article

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