Mycotic aneurysm caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei in a previously healthy returning traveller

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Bodilsen, Jacob ^a   Vammen, Sten ^b   Fuursted, Kurt ^c   Hjort, Ulla ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CREATININE; DOXYCYCLINE; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; IMIPENEM; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; RNA 16S; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; WATER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ABRASION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BLOOD SAMPLING; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEVER; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KNEE INJURY; LEISURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RASH; SURGICAL WARD; THAILAND; TRAVEL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINALYSIS; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN GRAFT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; MELIOIDOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BURKHOLDERIA PSEUDOMALLEI; CEFTAZIDIME; HUMANS; MALE; MELIOIDOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

EID: 84908432946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2013-202824     Document Type: Article

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