Escherichia coli pneumonia in combination with fungal sinusitis and meningitis in a tsunami survivor after the Great East Japan earthquake

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 227, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 179-184

  Igusa, Ryotaro ^a   Narumi, Sodai ^b   Murakami, Koji ^b   Kitawaki, Yuko ^a   Tamii, Toru ^a   Kato, Masahiro ^a   Sato, Mineshige ^a   Tsuboi, Masahiro ^a   Ota, Kozo ^a  

^a Osaki Citizen Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extended spectrum lactamase producing Escherichia coli; Fungal meningitis; Tsunami victims; Tsunami related aspiration pneumonia; Tsunami related sinusitis

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; CLINDAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MICAFUNGIN; PANIPENEM PLUS BETAMIPRON; VANCOMYCIN; VASOPRESSIN; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBEROSCOPE; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SPUTUM CULTURE; SURVIVOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; BRAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENINGITIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SINUSITIS; SURVIVORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84863874378     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: 13493329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.227.179     Document Type: Article

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