Fatal Scopulariopsis brevicaulis infection in a paediatric stem-cell transplant patient treated with voriconazole and caspofungin and a review of Scopulariopsis infections in immunocompromised patients

Journal of Infection

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 112-116

  Steinbach, W J ^a,c   Schell, W A ^b,c   Miller, J L ^c   Perfect, J R ^b,c   Martin, P L ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B CHOLESTEROL SULFATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DACLIZUMAB; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INFLIXIMAB; ITRACONAZOLE; PEPTIDE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TERBINAFINE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DEUTEROMYCETES; FATALITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SCOPULARIOPSIS BREVICAULIS; SKIN BIOPSY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0347917215     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-4453(03)00134-8     Document Type: Article

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