Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection with incomplete Stevens-Johnson syndrome

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 586-587

  Hillebrand Haverkort, Milly E ^a   Budding, Andries E ^a   de Vaate, Liesbeth A bij ^a   van Agtmael, Michiel A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CHEEK MUCOSA; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; COUGHING; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LIP; LUNG AUSCULTATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPY; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROLOGY; SKIN; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; STOMATITIS; URETHRITIS; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; HUMANS; MALE; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME;

EID: 52049095966     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70209-3     Document Type: Letter

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