Bacterial pyomyositis

Current Infectious Disease Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 393-396

  Scharschmidt, Thomas J ^b   Weiner, Scott D ^a   Myers, Joseph P ^b  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; NAFCILLIN; OXACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TIMENTIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DISEASE; MYALGIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PYOMYOSITIS; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TROPIC CLIMATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7944226182     PISSN: 15233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-004-0039-9     Document Type: Review

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