Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis due to Cladophialophora bantiana [4];Cerebral phaeiohyphomycosis due to Cladophialophora bantiana

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 593-594

  Pardo, Fernanda ^a   Ferrer, Enrique ^a   Romero, Patricia Alejandra ^a   Del Molino, María Luisa Pérez ^a  

^a University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CEFAZOLIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLOOD EXAMINATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG INFILTRATE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; ACUTE ABDOMEN; ASCOMYCETES; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FAMILIAL AMYLOIDOSIS; FATALITY; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SPAIN; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMYLOIDOSIS, FAMILIAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CEFAZOLIN; COMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; DRAINAGE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; SPAIN;

EID: 33845267227     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13093885     Document Type: Article

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