Rhodococcus equi infection

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 350-359

  Yamshchikov, Alexandra V ^a   Schuetz, Audrey ^b   Lyon, G Marshall ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; KIDNEY GRAFT; LIVESTOCK; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SOIL; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LYMPHADENITIS; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI;

EID: 77951929877     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(10)70068-2     Document Type: Review

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