Mycobacterium abscessus Chest Wall and Pulmonary Infection in a Cystic Fibrosis Lung Transplant Recipient

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 985-988

  Taylor, Jennifer L ^a   Palmer, Scott M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COLISTIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; TOBRAMYCIN; VALGANCICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CHEST INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DEATH; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 33746567319     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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