Nosocomial fungemia due to Trichosporon asteroides: Firstly described bloodstream infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-170

  Kustimur, Semra ^a   Kalkanci, Ayse ^a   Caglar, Kayhan ^a   Dizbay, Murat ^a   Aktas, Firdevs ^a   Sugita, Takashi ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; IMIPENEM; NETILMICIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORON ASTEROIDES; URINALYSIS;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 0036095520     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(02)00385-1     Document Type: Article

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