Rhizopus microsporus var. rhizopodiformis sinus-orbital zygomycosis in an immunosuppressed patient: Successful treatment with posaconazole after a complicated clinical course

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 699-701

  Stark, D ^a   Milliken, S ^a   Marriott, D ^a   Harkness, J ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; POSACONAZOLE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPOST; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; MUCORMYCOSIS; ORBIT INFECTION; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS RHIZOPODIFORMIS; SINUSITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; ORBITAL DISEASES; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASES; RHIZOPUS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TRIAZOLES; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 34248212741     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47069-0     Document Type: Article

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