Evaluation of Fusarium solani hyphae and conidia susceptibility to amphotericin B and itraconazole: Study of a Clinical Case

Mycopathologia

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-296

  Teixeira, A B A ^a   Moretti, M L ^a   Trabasso, P ^a   Von Nowakonski, A ^a   Aoki, F H ^a   Vigorito, A C ^a   Miyaji, M ^b   Nishimura, K ^b   Taguchi, H ^b   Schreiber, A Z ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Cidade Universitária Zeferino Vaz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amphotericin B; BioCell Tracer ; Fusarium solani; Itraconazole; Microdilution

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FATALITY; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DNA, FUNGAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOSES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEPSIS;

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI;

EID: 27144527243     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-005-0106-2     Document Type: Article

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