Saksenaea vasiformis infection, French Guiana [4]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 342-344

  Blanchet, Denis ^a   Dannaoui, Eric ^b,c   Fior, Angela ^a   Huber, Florence ^a   Couppié, Pierre ^a   Salhab, Nour ^a   Hoinard, Damien ^b   Aznar, Christine ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEVER; FRENCH GUIANA; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MUCORMYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SAKSENAEA VASIFORMIS; SCAR; SKIN NECROSIS; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE CULTURE; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 38949153409     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1402.071079     Document Type: Letter

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