Candida albicans septic thrombosis of the right atrium is associated with a central venous catheter

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 440-442

  Kentos, Alain ^a,b   Dufaye, Philippe ^a,b   Jacobs, Frédérique ^a,b   De Smet, Jean Marie ^a,b   Serruys, Elisabeth ^a,b   Thys, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b Intensive Care Department   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOSIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; SEPSIS; THROMBECTOMY;

EID: 0029146070     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/21.2.440     Document Type: Article

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