Recurrent furunculosis in returning travelers: Newly defined entity

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 21-25

  Artzi, Ofir ^a   Sinai, Maya ^a   Solomon, Michal ^a   Schwartz, Eli ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFTAZIDIME; FUSIDIC ACID; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CITROBACTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOGENESIS; POSTTRAVEL RECURRENT FURUNCULOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN SURGERY; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRAVEL; TROPICS; CALCINOSIS; HETEROZYGOTE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSE; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; PATHOGENICITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CALCINOSIS; CARRIER STATE; FEMALE; FURUNCULOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; NOSE; PANCREATITIS, CHRONIC; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929462894     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12151     Document Type: Article

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