Penicillium chrysogenum infection in a cotton farmer with acute myeloid leukemia

Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 482-483

  Keung, Yi Kong ^a   Kimbrough III, Robert ^b   Yuen, Kwok Yung ^c   Wong, Wing Chung ^e   Cobos, Everardo ^d  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; CYTARABINE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; FLUCONAZOLE; FOSCARNET; FUNGUS ANTIBODY; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IDARUBICIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ITRACONAZOLE; LIPID EMULSION; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AIR; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILL; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MYCOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; RIGOR;

EID: 0030716347     PISSN: 10569103     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019048-199706070-00013     Document Type: Article

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