Nocardiosis: Updates and clinical overview

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 403-407

  Wilson, John W ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZATHIOPRINE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; MEROPENEM; MINOCYCLINE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PREDNISONE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; BRAIN INFECTION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY FAILURE; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MONOTHERAPY; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84859835515     PISSN: 00256196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2011.11.016     Document Type: Review

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