Atypical infections in tsunami survivors

Emerg Infect Dis. 2005 Oct;11(10):1591-3. doi: 10.3201/eid1110.050715.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • 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*