Fatal Nocardia farcinica bacteremia in a patient with lung cancer

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-139

  Christidou, Athanassia ^a   Maraki, Sofia ^a   Scoulica, Efstathia ^a   Mantadakis, Elpis ^b   Agelaki, Sofia ^b   Samonis, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; METRONIDAZOLE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRUG EFFECT; FATALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; GREECE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 5044237698     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.06.009     Document Type: Article

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