Empyema thoracis due to Rhizopus oryzae in an allogenic bone marrow transplant recipient

Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-78

  Lai, Chih Cheng ^a   Liaw, Shwu Jen ^b   Hsiao, Yao Chuan ^a   Chiu, Yu Shin ^a   Laio, Wei Yu ^a   Lee, Li Na ^a   Hsueh, Po Ren ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplant; Empyema thoracis; Rhizopus oryzae

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GANCICLOVIR; IMIPENEM; RIBOSOME RNA; RITUXIMAB; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSURIA; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATURIA; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; RECIPIENT; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; RNA SEQUENCE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; THORACOCENTESIS;

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RHIZOPUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; PNEUMOCYSTIS; RHIZOPUS ORYZAE; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 31344465686     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780500148392     Document Type: Article

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