Invasive Infection Due to Apophysomyces elegans in Immunocompetent Hosts

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 881-884

  Weinberg, Winkler G ^a,b,c   Wade, Barbara H ^a,b,c   Cierny, George ^a,b,c   Stacy, David ^a,b,c   Rinaldi, Michael G ^a,b,c  

^a Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta   (United States)

^b Sacred Heart Hospital Pensacola   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MYCOSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ARACHNIDISM; CASE REPORT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUCORMYCOSIS; NECROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0027495820     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/17.5.881     Document Type: Article

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