Pulmonary pseudallescheriasis in a patient with healed tuberculosis

Mycopathologia

Volumn 158, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 289-291

  Bashir, Gulnaz ^a,b   Shakeel, Saman ^a   Wani, Tehmeena ^a   Kakru, Dalip K ^a  

^a SHER I KASHMIR INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b House No: 27 ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Pseudallescheria boydii; Pulmonary pseudallescheriasis; Pyriform conidia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MUCORMYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; HUMANS; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

FUNGI; PSEUDALLESCHERIA; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII;

EID: 12844288294     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-004-2224-7     Document Type: Article

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