Efficacy of imipenem therapy for Nocardia actinomycetomas refractory to sulfonamides

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 239-246

  Ameen, Mahreen ^a   Arenas, Roberto ^b   Vásquez del Mercado, Elsa ^b   Fernández, Ramón ^b   Torres, Edoardo ^b   Zacarias, Rogelio ^b  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL DR MANUEL GEA GONZÁLEZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

actinomycetoma; amikacin; imipenem; Nocardia; sulfonamide

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; IMIPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN;

ACTINOMADURA; ACTINOMYCETOMA; ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEPHROTOXICITY; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; VISCERA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMIKACIN; DAPSONE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCETOMA; NOCARDIA; SULFONAMIDES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 73649088928     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2009.06.043     Document Type: Article

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