Aspergillus niger causing tracheobronchitis and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in a lung transplant recipient: Case report

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 200-201

  Xavier, Melissa Orzechowski ^a   Sales, Maria Da Penha Uchoa ^b   Camargo, José De Jesus Peixoto ^c   Pasqualotto, Alessandro Comarú ^a,c,d,e   Severo, Luiz Carlos ^a,c,d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b Centro Universitário Estácio do Ceará   (Brazil)

^c Santa Casa Complexo Hospitalar   (Brazil)

^d Fellow of the National Research Council   (Brazil)

^e Hospital Dom Vicente Scherer   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillosis; Aspergillus niger; Lung transplantation; Tracheobronchitis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; ITRACONAZOLE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OKT 3; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG GRAFT REJECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SPECIES INVASION; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BRONCHITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; TRACHEITIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 45749128959     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822008000200014     Document Type: Article

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