Skin infection with fusarium in an immunocompetent patient;Infección cutánea por fusarium en paciente inmunocompetente

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 278-280

  Ruiz De Casas, Andrés ^a   Herrera, Alberto ^a   Suárez, Ana I ^a   Camacho, Francisco M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fusarium; Immunocompetent; Itraconazole; Skin infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREAM; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HEMATOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LEG PAIN; LEG ULCER; LOCAL THERAPY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SKIN INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745684001     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-7310(06)73400-7     Document Type: Article

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