Melioidosis complicated by pericarditis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 357-359

  Lim, Kieron ^a   Oh, Helen ^a  

^a CHANGI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERICARDIAL BIOPSY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PYREXIA IDIOPATHICA; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THRUSH; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNSAFE SEX;

AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; DOXYCYCLINE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS;

EID: 34147136150     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600953487     Document Type: Article

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