Multifocal osteomyelitis due to Mycobacterium szulgai in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia

Journal of Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-154

  Meyer, Jay J ^a   Gelman, Stephanie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical Mycobacteria; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Mycobacterium szulgai; Osteomyelitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AURAMINE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ETHAMBUTOL; FLUDARABINE; ISONIAZID; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE DESTRUCTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; ERYTHEMA; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FINGER FRACTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; NECROSIS; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; SKIN INDURATION; SKIN ULCER; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SWELLING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHAMBUTOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; OSTEOMYELITIS; RIFAMPIN;

EID: 39049173875     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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