Absidia Corymbifera in an immune competent accident victim with multiple abdominal injuries: Case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Belfiori, Rita ^a   Terenzi, Adelmo ^b   Marchesini, Laura ^a   Repetto, Antonella ^b  

^a Perugia General Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; RIFAMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN B;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL SCINTISCANNING; ABSIDIA; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRUSH SYNDROME; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FEVER; HAFNIA ALVEI; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NONHUMAN; PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPLEEN HEMATOMA; SPLENECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND FLUID; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; DRUG EFFECT; INDWELLING CATHETER; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATHOGENICITY;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ABSIDIA; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CRUSH SYNDROME; HUMANS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS;

EID: 34250623280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-46     Document Type: Article

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