Subcutaneous Fusarium foot abscess in a renal transplant patient

Cutis

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 267-270

  Girardi, Michael ^a   Glusac, Earl J ^a   Imaeda, Suguru ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; SKIN DISEASE;

ABSCESS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOOT DERMATOSES; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033127270     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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