Fatal dual infection with Salmonella and Mycobacterium avium complex infection in a patient with advanced acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Adejumo, Adetunji ^a   Olabige, Olutayo ^a   Sivapalan, Vel ^a  

^a Harlem Hospital/Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATOVAQUONE; AZITHROMYCIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; EMTRICITABINE PLUS TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL; ETHAMBUTOL; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; RIFABUTIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AIDS PATIENT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL MYCOBACTERIOSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM AVIUM; OROPHARYNX CANDIDIASIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 77953365678     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-6773     Document Type: Article

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