Relapsing Rhodococcus equi infection in a heart transplant recipient successfully treated with long-term linezolid

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-199

  Muñoz, Patricia ^a   Palomo, Jesús ^a   Guinea, Jesús ^a   Yañez, Juan ^a   Giannella, Maddalena ^b   Bouza, Emilio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Heart transplantation; Linezolid; Lung nodule; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACETAMIDES; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FLUCONAZOLE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXAZOLIDINONES; RECURRENCE; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38149049248     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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