Fatal necrotizing pneumonia caused by panton-Valentine leukocidin-producing hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus: A case report

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 58-60

  Al Talib, Hassanain ^a   Hasan, Habsah ^a   Yean, Chan Yean ^a   Al Ashwal, Sami M ^a   Ravichandran, Manickam ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

^b AIMST UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; HALOPERIDOL; ISONIAZID; OXACILLIN; PANTON VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN; PENICILLIN G; PHENYTOIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISORIENTATION; DYSPNEA; FATAL NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; INTRACRANIAL TUBERCULOMA; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; RECURRENT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; SEIZURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TACHYPNEA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CROSS INFECTION; EXOTOXINS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LEUKOCIDINS; MALE; METHICILLIN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79551589035     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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