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Atypical infections in tsunami survivors |
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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 | |
Identifiers | PMID: 16318701 | |
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Research group | Chirurgie orthopédique et traumatologique (98) | |
Citation (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 |