Late-onset posttraumatic skin and soft-tissue infections caused by rapid-growing mycobacteria in tsunami survivors

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Appelgren, Pia ^a   Farnebo, Filip ^a   Dotevall, Leif ^b   Studahl, Marie ^b   Jönsson, Bodil ^b   Petrini, Bjorn ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIMYCOBACTERIAL AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; DOXYCYCLINE; RIFABUTIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CLADOPHIALOPHORA BANTIANA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MAGERITENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM PEREGRINUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INJURY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SUTURE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TSUNAMI; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; NATURAL DISASTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 46349096317     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/589300     Document Type: Article

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