Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2005)

Atypical Infections in Tsunami Survivors

  • Christian Garzoni,
  • Stéphane Emonet,
  • Laurence Legout,
  • Rilliet Benedict,
  • Pierre Hoffmeyer,
  • Louis Bernard,
  • Jorge Garbino

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1110.050715
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 10
pp. 1591 – 1593

Abstract

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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.

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