Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infective endocarditis with Panton-Valentine leukocidin gene in an injection drug user with HIV infection

Internal Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 1485-1489

  Tsai, Hung Chin ^a,b,c   Chao, Pei Jiuan ^a,b   Sy, Cheng Len ^a,b   Lee, Susan Shin Jung ^a,b   Chen, Yao Shen ^a,b   Wann, Shue Ren ^a,b   Liu, Yung Ching ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Infective endocarditis; Intravenous drugs user; Methicillin resistant; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOCIDIN; METICILLIN; PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILL; COMMUNITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LABORATORY TEST; LEG PAIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG NODULE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NONHUMAN; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VIRUS LOAD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; EXOTOXINS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 54449096716     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0878     Document Type: Article

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