Molecular diagnosis of fatal Nocardia farcinica pneumonia in an HIV-negative patient

Respiration

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 461-465

  Bocchino, Marialuisa ^a   Paglia, Maria Grazia ^a   Marruchella, Almerico ^a   Contini, Silvia ^a,b   Festa, Anna ^a   Saltini, Cesare ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Molecular diagnosis; Nocardia farcinica; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 65; IMIPENEM; PREDNISONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG NOCARDIOSIS; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULITIS;

AGED; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 43649099165     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000094390     Document Type: Article

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