Cardiac infection and sepsis in 3 intravenous bath salts drug users

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Belton, Patrick ^a   Sharngoe, Tenzing ^a   Maguire, F Michael ^b   Polhemus, Mark ^a,c  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^b CROUSE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

bath salts; endocarditis; MRSA; pericarditis; S. aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BATH SALT; STREET DRUG; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EMPYEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; PERICARDITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BATH SALTS; ENDOCARDITIS; MRSA; PERICARDITIS; S. AUREUS;

ADULT; ALKALOIDS; BACTEREMIA; DESIGNER DRUGS; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; PERICARDITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREET DRUGS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84877245484     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit095     Document Type: Article

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