Correlation between fungi isolated from burn wounds and burn care units

Burns

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-147

  Mousa, Haider Abdul Lateef ^a   Al Bader, Salah M ^a   Hassan, Dina A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASRAH   (Iraq)

Author keywords

Burns; Burns microbiology; Fungal burn infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BURN INFECTION; FUNGUS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 0032972471     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(98)00148-X     Document Type: Article

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