Acute septicemic melioidosis presenting with acute cholangitis

Infection

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 461-464

  Lai, C H ^a   Huang, C K ^a   Chin, C ^a   Chen, W F ^a   Yang, Y T ^a   Chen, Y L ^b   Lin, H H ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLOODING; HUMAN; HURRICANE; JAUNDICE; MELIOIDOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SPUTUM CULTURE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CHOLANGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 37349098015     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-006-6624-0     Document Type: Article

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