Outbreak of Invasive Mycoses Caused by Paecilomyces lilacinus from a Contaminated Skin Lotion

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 799-806

  Orth, Bernd ^b   Frei, Reno ^a   Itin, Peter H ^a   Rinaldi, Michael G ^c   Speck, Bruno ^a   Gratwohl, Alois ^a   Widmer, Andreas F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Klinik Bavaria in Kreischa GmbH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIA; OINTMENT; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PAECILOMYCES; SWITZERLAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; OINTMENTS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PAECILOMYCES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0030588691     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-125-10-199611150-00003     Document Type: Article

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