Mycetoma of the chest wall due to Nocardia brasiliensis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 508-510

  Gouveia, Carolina ^a   Fraga, Ana ^a   Filipe, Paulo ^a   Sequeira, Horténsia ^b   Boiron, Patrick ^c   Couble, Andrée ^c,d,e,f,g   Rodriguez Nava, Verónica ^c,d,e,f,g   Gomes, Manuel Marques ^a,b  

^a Maria Hospital   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e VETAGRO SUP   (France)

^f Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biological Sciences   (France)

^g French Nocardiosis Observatory   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN C; RNA 16S;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; EOSINOPHIL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KELOID; LETTER; MYCETOMA; NEUTROPHIL; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN SWELLING; THORAX DEFORMITY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CICATRIX; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; NECK; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PORTUGAL; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; THORACIC WALL;

EID: 53349090528     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0463     Document Type: Letter

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