Resistant Microascus cirrosus pneumonia can be treated with a combination of surgery, multiple anti-fungal agents and a growth factor

Mycopathologia

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-302

  Ustun, Celalettin ^a,c   Huls, Gerwin ^b,c   Stewart, Marc ^c   Marr, Kieren A ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Fungal infection; Microascus cirrosus; Pneumonia; Scopulariopsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PNEUMONIA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

MICROASCUS; MICROASCUS CIRROSUS; SCOPULARIOPSIS;

EID: 33750075138     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-006-0067-0     Document Type: Article

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