An immunosuppressed patient with systemic vasculitis suffering from cerebral abscesses due to Nocardia farcinica identified by 16S rRNA gene universal PCR

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2896-2900

  Sonesson, Andreas ^a   Öqvist, Björn ^a   Hagstam, Per ^a   Björkman Burtscher, Isabella M ^a   Miörner, Håkan ^a   Petersson, Ann Cathrine ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Amikacin; Cerebral abscess; Immunosuppression; Nocardia farcinica; PCR

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMIPENEM; INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PREDNISOLONE; RNA 16S; TOBRAMYCIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE COMPLEX NEPHRITIS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INSULIN DEPENDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; NOCARDIA FARCINICA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PLASMAPHERESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS;

BRAIN ABSCESS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VASCULITIS;

EID: 8344239640     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh412     Document Type: Article

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