Rhodococcus equi pulmonary-central nervous system syndrome: brain abscess in a patient on high-dose steroids-a case report and review of the literature

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 96-99

  Roda, Ricardo Horacio ^a   Young, Mary ^b   Timpone, Joseph ^b   Rosen, Jessica ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain abscess; CNS pulmonary syndrome; Corticosteroids; Rhodococcus

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MEROPENEM; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RISK FACTOR;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 57349111681     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2008.08.024     Document Type: Article

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