Mycobacterium abscessus: An emerging rapid-growing potential pathogen

APMIS

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 319-328

  Petrini, Björn ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Antimycobacterial drug susceptibility testing; Antimycobacterial therapy; Mycobacterium abscessus; Rapid growing Mycobacteria

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA ANTIBODY;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; ENDOCARDITIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENITIS; MENINGITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; OTOTOXICITY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOGENICITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INJURY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MINOCYCLINE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33744783400     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2006.apm_390.x     Document Type: Review

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