A case of peritonitis caused by Rhizopus microsporus

Mycoses

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-142

  Monecke, Stefan ^a   Hochauf, Kristina ^a   Gottschlich, Birgit ^b   Ehricht, Ralf ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^c Clondiag Chip Technologies GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candida glabrata; Hybridisation; PCR; Peritonitis; Rhizopus microsporus; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LAVASEPT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE); VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CASE REPORT; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROTOMY; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; BIGUANIDES; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DNA, FUNGAL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PERITONITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC; RHIZOPUS;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 33645220020     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2006.01190.x     Document Type: Article

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