Gastrointestinal zygomycosis caused by Mucor indicus in a patient with acute traumatic brain injury

Medical Mycology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 683-687

  Deja, Maria ^a   Wolf, Steffen ^a   Weber Carstens, Steffen ^a   Lehmann, Thomas Nicolas ^a   Adler, Andreas ^a   Ruhnke, Markus ^a   Tintelnot, Kathrin ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal; Liposomal amphotericin B; Mucor indicus; Trauma; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ITRACONAZOLE; LAVASEPT; LEVKINE; POSACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; CRANIECTOMY; CYCLING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL BIOPSY; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GASTROSCOPY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOR; MUCOR INDICUS; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; STOMACH ULCER; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BRAIN INJURIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOR; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

MUCOR INDICUS;

EID: 33750438434     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780600803888     Document Type: Review

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