Disseminated Fusarium Infection Identified by the Immunohistochemical Staining in a Patient with a Refractory Leukemia

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-77

  Saito, Toshiaki ^a   Imaizumi, Masue ^a   Kudo, Kazuhiro ^a   Hotchi, Masao ^b   Chikaoka, Syuji ^a   Yoshinari, Miyako ^a   Suwabe, Naruyoshi ^a   Sato, Atsushi ^a   Suzuki, Hoshiro ^a   Iinuma, Kazuie ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MYCOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKOCYTE TRANSFUSION; MYCOSES; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0032617045     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.187.71     Document Type: Article

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