Rapidly growing mycobacterial bloodstream infections

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 166-174

  El Helou, Gilbert ^a   Viola, George M ^a   Hachem, Ray ^a   Han, Xiang Y ^a   Raad, Issam I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFOXITIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLONE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BIOFILMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, NONTUBERCULOUS; NONTUBERCULOUS MYCOBACTERIA; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICES;

EID: 84872575848     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(12)70316-X     Document Type: Review

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