Human protothecosis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-242

  Lass Flörl, Cornelia ^a   Mayr, Astrid ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CHLORHEXIDINE; COPPER SULFATE; DOXYCYCLINE; EMETINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GRISEOFULVIN; IMIDAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PENTAMIDINE; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; PEROXIDE; PICRIC ACID; POTASSIUM IODIDE; TETRACYCLINE; VORICONAZOLE;

BIOLOGY; BLOOD; BURSITIS; CHLORELLA; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FISTULA; HEPATITIS; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTESTINE INFECTION; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEUM; PERITONITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SPLEEN; TAXONOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; INFECTION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PHYLOGENY; PROTOTHECA;

ALGAE; PROTOTHECA; PROTOTHECA WICKERHAMII; PROTOTHECA ZOPFII;

EID: 34248191827     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00032-06     Document Type: Review

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