Nocardiosis: Updated clinical review and experience at a tertiary center

Infection

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-97

  Ambrosioni, J ^a   Lew, D ^a   Garbino, J ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACTINOMYCETOMA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG LAVAGE; MYCETOMA; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA ASTEROIDES; NOCARDIA BRASILIENSIS; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT DURATION; UROLITHIASIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77953232605     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-009-9193-9     Document Type: Review

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