Necrotising pneumonia due to Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 373-

  Cheung, Ada S Z ^a   Aboltins, Craig A ^a   Daffy, John R ^a   Stanley, Peter A ^a  

^a NORTHERN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; METICILLIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METHICILLIN SENSITIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECROTISING PNEUMONIA; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT HEMORRHAGE; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN; NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 44049098902     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01660.x     Document Type: Letter

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