A case of cutaneous infection caused by Mycobacterium szulgai with progression to acute respiratory distress syndrome

Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 29-33

  Ohta, Hiromitsu ^a   Miyauchi, Eisaku ^a   Ebina, Masahito ^a   Nukiwa, Toshihiro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Cutaneous infection; Mycobacterium szulgai

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; ISONIAZID; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHLAMYDIAL PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEVER; FOLLICULITIS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG SWELLING; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SZULGAI; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RASH; SKIN CULTURE; SKIN ULCER; SPUTUM CULTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRUS CARRIER;

EID: 84860389368     PISSN: 11795476     EISSN: 11795476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/CCRep.S7180     Document Type: Article

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