Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis due to Aspergillus terreus: 12-year experience and review of the literature

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1092-1097

  Iwen, Peter C ^a   Rupp, Mark E ^b   Langnas, Alan N ^b   Reed, Elizabeth C ^b   Hinrichs, Steven H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0031901306     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520297     Document Type: Article

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