Intracranial Nocardia recurrence during fluorinated quinolones therapy

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 161-165

  Dahan, K ^a,b   Kabbaj, D El ^a   Venditto, M ^a   Pastural, M ^a   Delahousse, M ^a  

^a FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral abscess; Fluorinated quinolones; Kidney transplantation; Nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

AMIKACIN; AZA COMPOUNDS; BRAIN ABSCESS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; QUINOLINES; SULFAMETHIZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 33746889764     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2006.00130.x     Document Type: Article

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