Pleuritis with pleural effusion due to a Bacillus megaterium infection

Respirology Case Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Crisafulli, Ernesto ^a   Aredano, Ilaria ^a   Valzano, Ilaria ^a   Burgazzi, Barbara ^a   Andrani, Francesco ^a   Chetta, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bacillus megaterium infection; pleural effusion; pleuritic

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; OLMESARTAN; PROTEIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BACILLACEAE INFECTION; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MACROCYTIC ANEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PARTIAL GASTRECTOMY; PEPTIC ULCER; PLEURA BIOPSY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURISY; SMOKING HABIT; TACHYCARDIA; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 85057438697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcr2.381     Document Type: Article

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