Mycetoma in children: Experience with 15 cases

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-52

  Bonifaz, Alexandro ^a,c   Ibarra, Guadalupe ^b   Saúl, Amado ^a   Paredes Solis, Vanessa ^a   Carrasco Gerard, Eugenio ^a   Fierro Arias, Leonel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HOSPITAL INFANTIL DE MÉXICO FEDERICO GÓMEZ   (Mexico)

^c NONE   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Actinomycetoma; Eumycetoma; Madurella mycetomatis; Mycetoma; Nocardia brasiliensis

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

ACTINOMYCES; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MADURELLA MYCETOMATIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCETOMA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASES; HUMANS; MADURELLA; MADUROMYCOSIS; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33846018438     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000247108.86199.64     Document Type: Article

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