Transmission of Trichosporon asahii oesophagitis by a contaminated endoscope

Mycoses

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 13-21

  Lo Passo, C ^a   Pernice, I ^a   Celeste, A ^a   Perdichizzi, G ^a   Todaro Luck, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Nosocomial transmission; Oesophagitis; RAPD; Trichosporon

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; NYSTATIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTAMINATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; ENDOSCOPE; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; FEMALE; FORCEPS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; TRICHOSPORON;

FUNGI; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

EID: 0035012211     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0507.2001.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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