Cluster of pulmonary infections caused by Cunninghamella bertholletiae in immunocompromised patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 910-913

  Rickerts, Volker ^a   Böhme, Angelika ^a   Viertel, Achim ^a   Behrendt, Gabriele ^a   Jacobi, Volkmar ^a   Tintelnot, Kathrin ^a   Just Nübling, Gudrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ASPARAGINASE; CARMUSTINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCYTOSINE; GANCICLOVIR; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; ITRACONAZOLE; MELPHALAN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; TACROLIMUS; VINCRISTINE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CUNNINGHAMELLA; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; CUNNINGHAMELLA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS;

EID: 0034451669     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318144     Document Type: Article

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