Complicated secondary pneumonia after swine-origin infuenza a virus infection in an immunocompetent patient

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-120

  Igusa, Ryotaro ^a   Sakakibara, Tomohiro ^b   Shibahara, Taizo ^b   Sakamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishimura, Hidekazu ^c   Ota, Kozo ^a  

^a Osaki Citizen Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI CITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Herpes simplex virus pneumonia; Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; Swine origin infuenza virus; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LINEZOLID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OSELTAMIVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANAMNESIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; SECONDARY INFECTION; SPUTUM CULTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

COINFECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 84856281314     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.226.117     Document Type: Article

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