A rare case of chromoblastomycosis in a renal transplant recipient caused by a non-sporulating species of Rhytidhysteron

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-166

  Chowdhary, Anuradha ^a   Guarro, J ^b   Randhawa, H S ^a   Gene J ^b   Cano, J ^b   Jain, R K ^c   Kumar, Sunil ^c   Khanna, Geetika ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b FACULTAT DE MEDICINA I CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^c SAFDARJUNG HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Chromoblastomycosis; India; Non sporulating fungus; Renal transplant; Rhytidhysteron

Indexed keywords

ITRACONAZOLE; RNA 18S;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CASE REPORT; CHROMOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FATALITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RHITIDHYSTERON; SKIN BIOPSY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEG DERMATOSES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; PATELLARIALES; RHYTIDHYSTERON;

EID: 40649087897     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701630420     Document Type: Article

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