Rapidly fatal necrotizing pneumonia in a 12-year-old boy caused by co-infection with parainfluenza virus type 1 and Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-positive methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus

Infection

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-77

  Wenzel, J J ^a   Hentschel, J ^b   Silvis, W ^a   Permanetter, W ^c   Mattes, J ^d   Kochanowski, B ^d   Herterich, R ^b   Jilg, W ^a   Linde, H J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Children's Hospital St Marien   (Germany)

^c Klinikum Landshut   (Germany)

^d Microbiology Laboratory Dr Mattes Dr Kochanowski   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; OXACILLIN; OXYGEN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISONE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ATELECTASIS; AUTOPSY; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYANOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; LETTER; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOPLASMA PNEUMONIAE; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PNEUMONIA; RESUSCITATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA VIRUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS 1, HUMAN; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; RESPIROVIRUS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 62449310411     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-008-8214-9     Document Type: Letter

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