Isolation of Exophiala dermatitidis from endotracheal aspirate of a cancer patient

Mycoses

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 504-509

  Taj Aldeen, S J ^a   El Shafie, S ^a   Alsoub, H ^a   Eldeeb, Y ^a   De Hoog, G S ^b  

^a HAMAD MEDICAL CORPORATION   (Qatar)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cancer patient; Colonisation; Exophiala dermatitidis; Pulmonary disorder

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ADULT; ASPIRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; EXOPHIALA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EXOPHIALA; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MIDDLE AGED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

ANIMALIA; EXOPHIALA DERMATITIDIS; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS;

EID: 33749442298     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2006.01280.x     Document Type: Review

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