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Intervertebral infection due to Candida albicans in an intravenous heroin abuser.

I F Rowe1, E D Wright, C S Higgens, J P Burnie.   

Abstract

A 25 year old woman who had received intravenous heroin over one year previously developed an intervertebral abscess due to infection with Candida albicans. Immunological investigation of this patient showed no evidence of a specific defect in the host response to candida.

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Year:  1988        PMID： 3382272      PMCID： PMC1003558          DOI： 10.1136/ard.47.6.522

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Ann Rheum Dis        ISSN： 0003-4967            Impact factor:   19.103


  10 in total

1.  Source of infection in candida endophthalmitis in drug addicts.

Authors:  G S Shankland; M D Richardson; G N Dutton
Journal:  Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)       Date:  1986-04-26

2.  Systemic candidiasis in heroin addicts.

Authors:  R J Hay
Journal:  Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)       Date:  1986-04-26

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Authors:  S M Brown; B Stimmel; R N Taub; S Kochwa; R E Rosenfield
Journal:  Arch Intern Med       Date:  1974-12

4.  Immunoblot analysis of the serological response in systemic candidosis.

Authors:  R C Matthews; J P Burnie; S Tabaqchali
Journal:  Lancet       Date:  1984-12-22       Impact factor: 79.321

5.  A radiometric assay for the combined measurement of phagocytosis and intracellular killing of Candida albicans.

Authors:  C G Bridges; G L Dasilva; M Yamamura; H Valdimarsson
Journal:  Clin Exp Immunol       Date:  1980-11       Impact factor: 4.330

6.  Cutaneous, ocular, and osteoarticular candidiasis in heroin addicts: new clinical and therapeutic aspects in 38 patients.

Authors:  B Dupont; E Drouhet
Journal:  J Infect Dis       Date:  1985-09       Impact factor: 5.226

7.  Role of the lemon in disseminated candidiasis of heroin abusers.

Authors:  H F Newton-John; K Wise; D F Looke
Journal:  Med J Aust       Date:  1984-06-23       Impact factor: 7.738

8.  Alteration of T and null lymphocyte frequencies in the peripheral blood of human opiate addicts: in vivo evidence for opiate receptor sites on T lymphocytes.

Authors:  R J McDonough; J J Madden; A Falek; D A Shafer; M Pline; D Gordon; P Bokos; J C Kuehnle; J Mendelson
Journal:  J Immunol       Date:  1980-12       Impact factor: 5.422

9.  Disseminated candidiasis: evidence of a distinctive syndrome in heroin abusers.

Authors:  P J Collignon; T C Sorrell
Journal:  Br Med J (Clin Res Ed)       Date:  1983-09-24

10.  Candidal endophthalmitis in Glaswegian heroin addicts: report of an epidemic.

Authors:  J B Servant; G N Dutton; L Ong-Tone; T Barrie; C Davey
Journal:  Trans Ophthalmol Soc U K       Date:  1985
  10 in total
  2 in total

1.  Candida osteomyelitis: analysis of 207 pediatric and adult cases (1970-2011).

Authors:  Maria N Gamaletsou; Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis; Nikolaos V Sipsas; Brad Moriyama; Elizabeth Alexander; Emmanuel Roilides; Barry Brause; Thomas J Walsh
Journal:  Clin Infect Dis       Date:  2012-08-21       Impact factor: 9.079

2.  Intrathecal spinal abscesses due to Candida albicans in an immunocompetent man.

Authors:  John K Crane
Journal:  BMJ Case Rep       Date:  2018-03-27
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