Corynebacterium jeikeium sepsis after 8-methoxypsolaren photopheresis for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-72

  Umeh, Obiamiwe Chukwudiebere ^a   Kubak, Bernard Michael ^a   Pegues, David Alexander ^a   Leibowitz, Matthew Richard ^a   Froch, Larry ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Corynebacterium jeikeium; photopheresis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BEXAROTENE; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOPAMINE; ETOPOSIDE; INTERFERON; LINEZOLID; METHOTREXATE; METHOXSALEN; PREDNISONE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CUTANEOUS T CELL LYMPHOMA; DIPHTHERIA; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPSIS;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LYMPHOMA, T-CELL, CUTANEOUS; MALE; METHOXSALEN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHOTOPHERESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 5444232455     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2004.05.001     Document Type: Article

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