Treatment with linezolid and rifampicin for 18 months for recurrent infection of a megaprosthesis in a patient with Ewing's sarcoma [5]

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 628-630

  Prugger, V ^a   Egner, S ^a   Windhager, R ^a   Mitteregger, M ^a   Bertha, G ^a   Wenisch, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; ROXITHROMYCIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETAMIDES; ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; OXAZOLIDINONES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RIFAMPIN; SARCOMA, EWING'S;

EID: 8844282716     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2004.09.008     Document Type: Letter

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