A pentad of vancomycin reactions

SKINmed

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 225-229

  O’Brien, Meghan ^a   Shah, Avnee ^a   Allen, Herbert B ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GENERALIZED EXANTHEMATOUS PUSTULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG ERUPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN EXFOLIATIVE DERMATITIS; PATHOLOGY; TOXIC EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ACUTE GENERALIZED EXANTHEMATOUS PUSTULOSIS; ADOLESCENT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DERMATITIS, EXFOLIATIVE; DRUG ERUPTIONS; EPIDERMAL NECROLYSIS, TOXIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES, VESICULOBULLOUS; VANCOMYCIN; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84555195448     PISSN: 15409740     EISSN: 17517125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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