Are your patients at risk? Fungal contamination of Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil (yerba maté)

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-48

  Di Pentima, M Cecilia ^a,b   Steele Moore, L ^c,d   Muehlbauer, L ^c   Klein, J D ^a,b  

^a NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungal contamination; Ilex paraguariensis St. Hil; Yerba mat

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BEVERAGE; CHRYSOSPORIUM; EUROPE; FATIGUE; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; GRINDING; HUMAN; HYPHOMYCETES; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNITY; LETTER; MARKET; PAECILOMYCES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; SCEDOSPORIUM; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BEVERAGES; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI; HUMANS; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST;

EID: 22144456754     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2005.00085.x     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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2. KUSMINSKY G, DICTAR M, ARDUINO S, ZYLBERMAN M, SANCHEZ AVALOS JC. Do not drink maté. An additional source of infection in South American neutropenic patients. Bone Marrow Transplant 1996: 17: 127.