Diagnosis of endocarditis caused by Mycobacterium abscessus

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 408-411

  Al Benwan, Khalifa ^a   Ahmad, Suhail ^b   Mokaddas, Eiman ^b   Johny, Molly ^a   Kapoor, Madan ^a  

^a AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; BACTERIAL DNA; CLARITHROMYCIN; CREATININE; DNA 16S; DNA 23S; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE BETA SUBUNIT; STREPTOMYCIN; TIGECYCLINE; UREA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HEART ARREST; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HEPATITIS C; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; SPLENOMEGALY; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; T WAVE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLARITHROMYCIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINOCYCLINE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE;

EID: 77956257525     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0256-4947.67086     Document Type: Article

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