Invasive Fungal Sinusitis Caused by Scytalidium dimidiatum in A Lung Transplant Recipient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 5817-5819

  Dunn, James J ^a,b,d   Wolfe, Michael J ^c   Trachtenberg, Joel ^c   Kriesel, John D ^c   Orlandi, Richard R ^c   Carroll, Karen C ^a,b,e  

^a ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCYTALIDIUM DIMIDIATUM; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SINUSITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

FUNGI; SCYTALIDIUM; SCYTALIDIUM DIMIDIATUM;

EID: 0347479377     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.41.12.5817-5819.2003     Document Type: Article

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