Trichosporon asahii infection in an advanced AIDS patient and literature review

AIDS

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 793-795

  Gross, Joseph W ^a   Kan, Virginia L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; POLYSACCHARIDE; VIRUS RNA; VORICONAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN; RNA;

ABSCESS; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FUNGEMIA; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; AIDS PATIENT; AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HOSPICE CARE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REINFECTION; SKIN ABSCESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII INFECTION; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; TRICHOSPORON;

EID: 41349101599     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f51ecc     Document Type: Letter

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