Nocardial infection in crete, Greece: Review of fifteen cases from 2003 to 2007

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 122-127

  Maraki, Sofia ^a   Scoulica, Efstathia ^a   Nioti, Eleni ^a   Tselentis, Yannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG RESPONSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ABSCESSUS; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NOCARDIA OTITIDISCAVIARUM; NOCARDIA TRANSVALENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; SKIN INFECTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 58449108055     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540802651905     Document Type: Article

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