Prompt and successful toxin-targeting treatment of three patients with necrotizing pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the panton-valentine leukocidin genes

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1952-1955

  Rouzic, Nicolas ^a,b,c,d   Janvier, Frédéric ^e   Libert, Nicolas ^e   Javouhey, Etienne ^d   Lina, Gerard ^a,b,c,d   Nizou, Jacques Yves ^e   Pasquier, Pierre ^f   Stamm, Didier ^d   Brinquin, Louis ^e   Pelletier, Christophe ^f   Vandenesch, François ^a,b,c,d   Floret, Daniel ^d   Etienne, Jerome ^a,b,c,d   Gillet, Yves ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d HOSPICES CIVILS DE LYON   (France)

^e University of Paris Descartes   (France)

^f SERVICE D ENDOCRINOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; OFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PROCALCITONIN; RIFAMPICIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; LUNG ABSCESS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LESION; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ASPIRATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL PNEUMONIA; TACHYPNEA; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VITAL SIGN;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 77951820846     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01892-09     Document Type: Article

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