Invasive infections with a coagulase-negative staphylococcus in an immunocompromised patient: Case report and review of the literature

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 771-772

  Choi, Goda ^a   van Borne, Maaike P J ^a,b   Visser, Caroline E ^a   Kersten, Marie José ^a   Kater, Arnon P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; METHOTREXATE; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE; RIFAMPICIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TETRACYCLINE; TIOGUANINE; TOBRAMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTHROTOMY; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LETTER; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SORE THROAT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COAGULASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA, ADULT T-CELL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 48649099735     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00277-008-0476-x     Document Type: Letter

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