Aspergillus fumigatus isolated from blood samples of a patient with pulmonary aspergilloma after embolization

Internal Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 188-190

  Seki, Masafumi ^a   Maesaki, Shigefumi ^a   Hashiguchi, Kohji ^a   Tomiyama, Yumiko ^a   Tomono, Kazunori ^a   Tashiro, Takayoshi ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood culture; ELISA; Galactomannan antigen; Itraconazole; Lysis centrifugation

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; ITRACONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGEMIA; GENETICS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FUNGEMIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034136134     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.39.188     Document Type: Article

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