Concomitant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Aspergillus niger infection in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Chemotherapy

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 264-266

  Aksoy, Duygu Yazgan ^a   Turker, Alev ^a   Altundag, M Kadri ^a   Abali, Huseyin ^a   Durusu, Mine ^a   Erman, Mustafa ^a   Uner, Aysegul ^a   Sungur, Ayse Arzu ^a   Unal, Serhat ^a   Uzun, Omrum ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Aspergillosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; BILIRUBIN; CEFEPIME; CYTARABINE; ETHAMBUTOL; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; IDARUBICIN; ISONIAZID; ITRACONAZOLE; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPHADENITIS; MOULD; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOSIS; NECROSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PAPULAR SKIN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULIN TEST;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, CUTANEOUS;

EID: 10744229925     PISSN: 00093157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072452     Document Type: Article

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