Nocardial infections: Report of 22 cases

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 239-246

  Chedid, Maria Bernadete F ^a,e   Chedid, Marcio F ^a   Porto, Nelson S ^b   Severo, Cecília B ^c   Severo, Luiz Carlos ^c,d  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b Pavilhão Pereira F Hospital   (Brazil)

^c Infection Control Department   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

CNS nocardiosis; Cutaneous nocardiosis; Nocardia species; Nocardial endocarditis; Nocardial infection; Pulmonary nocardiosis; Small bowel nocardiosis; Systemic nocardiosis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSERINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; SULFADIAZINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCETOMA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN ABSCESS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 34548638004     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0036-46652007000400009     Document Type: Article

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