Pleuropulmonary and soft tissue Nocardia cyriacigeorgici infection in a patient with Behcet's disease

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1435-1437

  Arslan, Ugur ^a   Tuncer, Inci ^a   Uysal, Elif B ^a   Inci, Ramazan ^b  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFEPIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINOCYCLINE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PREDNISONE; TICARCILLIN; TIMENTIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BEHCET DISEASE; CANDIDA; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DEATH; DRUG RESPONSE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MOON FACE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA CYRIACIGEORGICI; NOCARDIOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; PLEURA DISEASE;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PLEURAL DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 38849098552     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 16583175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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