Successful treatment of mucormycosis in a renal allograft recipient

Clinical and Experimental Nephrology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-210

  Bakr, Adel ^a   Wafa, Ehab ^a   Fouda, Ashraf ^a   ElAgroudy, Amgad ^a   Gheith, Osama ^a   Sobh, Mohamed ^a   Shokeir, Ahmed ^a   Ghoneim, Mohamed ^a  

^a MANSOURA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Amphotricin; Kidney; Mucor; Transplant

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MUCORMYCOSIS; PATIENT MONITORING;

ADULT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44149102644     PISSN: 13421751     EISSN: 14377799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10157-008-0028-7     Document Type: Article

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