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Atypical infections in tsunami survivors
Authors
Garzoni, Christian
Emonet, Stéphane
Legout, Laurence
Rilliet, Bénédict
Hoffmeyer, Pierre
Bernard, Louis
Garbino, Jorge
Published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2005, vol. 11, no. 10, p. 1591-3
Abstract After a tsunami hit Asia in December 2004, 2 survivors had severe infections due to multidrug-resistant and atypical bacteria and rare fungi weeks afterwards. Treating these infections is challenging from a clinical and microbiologic point of view.
Keywords Disasters — Discitis/microbiology — Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial — Female — Gram-Negative Bacteria/drug effects — Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections/microbiology — Humans — Male — Middle Aged — Mycetoma/microbiology — Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous/microbiology — Mycobacterium chelonae/isolation & purification — Scedosporium/isolation & purification — Survivors — Thoracic Vertebrae
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PMID: 16318701
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de chirurgie
Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département des neurosciences cliniques
Research group Chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique (98)
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(ISO format) 		GARZONI, Christian et al. Atypical infections in tsunami survivors. In: Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2005, vol. 11, n° 10, p. 1591-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1110.050715 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:39919

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