Nocardiosis in adult-onset stills disease and vasculitis syndrome

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-80

  Tada, Yoshifumi ^a   Fukuoka, Mami ^a   Mitamura, Mio ^a   Koarada, Shuichi ^a   Suematsu, Rie ^a   Inoue, Hisako ^a   Ohta, Akihide ^a   Nagasawa, Kohei ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adult onset Stills disease; Cyclosporine; Nocardiosis; Vasculitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOTAXIME; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN A; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MINOCYCLINE; PANIPENEM; PREDNISOLONE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN;

ADULT; ADULT ONSET STILL DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULITIS; VOMITING; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; CYCLOSPORINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG ABSCESS; MALE; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; STILL'S DISEASE, ADULT-ONSET; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULITIS;

EID: 51449116145     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318159e0b4     Document Type: Article

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