Successful treatment of meningoencephalitis caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus ureus with intravenous linezolid in an allogeneic cord blood stem cell transplant recipient

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 990-992

  Higa, Tomitaka ^a   Tasaka, Taizo ^b   Kubo, Yasutaka ^a   Nakagiri, Itsuhiro ^b   Sano, Fuminori ^a   Matsuhashi, Yoshiko ^a   Fukai, Yuta ^b   Wada, Hideho ^a   Tohyama, Kaoru ^b   Sugihara, Takashi ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTARABINE; FLUDARABINE; FOSCARNET; GLUCOSE; LINEZOLID; MELPHALAN; MINOCYCLINE; TACROLIMUS; VANCOMYCIN; VIRUS DNA;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CONVULSION; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA MATCHING; HLA TYPING; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 6; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ACETAMIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; OXAZOLIDINONES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 57049084014     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802287098     Document Type: Article

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