Multifocal cutaneous mucormycosis complicating polymicrobial wound infections in a tsunami survivor from Sri Lanka

Lancet

Volumn 365, Issue 9462, 2005, Pages 876-878

  Andresen, David ^a   Donaldson, Annabelle ^a   Choo, Lennart ^a   Knox, Adrian ^a   Klaassen, Michael ^a   Ursic, Caesar ^a   Vonthethoff, Leon ^a   Krilis, Steven ^a   Konecny, Pamela ^a  

^a ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABRASION; ADULT; APOPHYSOMECES ELEGANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FAT NECROSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCORMYCOSIS; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYCOSIS; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SRI LANKA; SURVIVAL; WOUND CARE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 14744285035     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)71046-1     Document Type: Article

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