Challenges in the diagnosis and management of Nocardia infections in lung transplant recipients

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 403-408

  Poonyagariyagorn, H K ^a   Gershman, A ^a   Avery, R ^a   Minai, O ^a   Blazey, H ^a   Asamoto, K ^a   Alster, J ^a   Murthy, S ^a   Mehta, A ^a   Pettersson, G ^a   Mason, D P ^a   Budev, M ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Lung transplant; Management; Nocardia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DAPSONE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LINEZOLID;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIOSIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ABSCESS; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VOMITING;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BIOPSY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; OHIO; PLEURAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 56549114820     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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