Nocardia cyriacigeorgica pleural empyema in an immunocompromised patient

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-335

  Maraki, Sofia ^a   Panagiotaki, Evangelia ^b   Tsopanidis, Dimitrios ^b   Scoulica, Efstathia ^a   Miari, Nafsika Magdalini ^b   Hainis, Kyriakos ^b   Dotis, George ^b   Katsoula, Iliana ^b   Tselentis, Yiannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b General Hospital of Corfu   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticosteroid treatment; Nocardia cyriacigeorgica; Pleural empyema

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 33750431378     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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