Pathogenesis of Trichosporon asahii and strategies for infectious control of disseminated trichosporonosis

Japanese Journal of Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 181-186

  Tokimatsu, Issei ^a   Karashima, Reiko ^a   Yamagata, Eiji ^a   Yamakami, Yuriko ^a   Nagai, Hiroyuki ^a   Kadota, Jun Ichi ^a   Nasu, Masaru ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOTOXICITY; DISSEMINATED TRICHOSPORONOSIS; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOMODULATION; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; TRICHOSPORON MUCOIDES;

EID: 0041513048     PISSN: 09164804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3314/jjmm.44.181     Document Type: Review

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