Tsukamurella infection: A rare cause of community-acquired pneumonia

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 341, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 500-503

  Mehta, Yatin B ^a   Goswami, Raktima ^b   Bhanot, Nitin ^b   Mehta, Zankhana ^a   Simonelli, Paul ^a  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

community acquired pneumonia; pneumonia; Tsukamurella

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; HEMOGLOBIN; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHINA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COUGHING; DENTITION; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOPTYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG EXAMINATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOUTH CAVITY; MYCOBACTERIUM INTRACELLULARE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PULSE RATE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TSUKAMURELLA INFECTION; TSUKAMURELLA PAUROMETABOLUM; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

EID: 79958157668     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: 15382990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e3182129d02     Document Type: Article

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