Pacemaker pocket infection due to Mycobacterium goodii: Case report and review of the literature

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 75-76

  Chrissoheris, Michael P ^a   Kadakia, Hemal ^b   Marieb, Mark ^a   Libertin, Claudia ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^b Hospital of Saint Raphael ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFEPIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; DRUG COMBINATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; REVIEW;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 39749127070     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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