Intestinal invasion and disseminated disease associated with Penicillium chrysogenum

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Barcus, Adrian L ^a   Burdette, Steven D ^a   Herchline, Thomas E ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE; ITRACONAZOLE; STEROID; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GANGRENE; HERNIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE INFECTION; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME; PATHOLOGY; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; DRUG EFFECT; ENTEROPATHY; INTESTINE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL DISEASES; INTESTINES; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 30044451424     PISSN: 14760711     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-4-21     Document Type: Article

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