Disseminated tuberculosis following liver transplant presenting with an axillary abscess

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ladds, Emma ^a  

^a SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; MEROPENEM; RIFAMPICIN;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; AGED; AIR CONDITIONING; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON COLD; COUGHING; DRUG EFFICACY; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS INFECTION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER GRAFT; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PARONYCHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 84896732314     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-202903     Document Type: Article

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