Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis caused by Scytalidium dimidiatum: A case report from India

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 705-711

  Mani, Reeta Subramaniam ^a   Chickabasaviah, Yasha Thagadur ^a   Nagarathna, Siddaiah ^a   Chandramuki, Akepati ^a   Shivprakash, Mandya Rudramurthy ^b   Vijayan, Joy ^a   Prashantha, Devarahalli Krishnamurthy ^a   Vasudevan, Pillai Shibu ^a   Natarajan, Arvind ^a   Kovoor, Jerry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis; Scytalidium dimidiatum; Scytalidium dimidiatum cerebral abscess

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; MANNITOL; METRONIDAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; STEROID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFECTION; BROTH DILUTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FEVER; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOKALEMIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INDIAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAPILLEDEMA; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; SCYTALIDIUM DIMIDIATUM; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BRAIN DISEASES; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOSES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S;

FUNGI; FUSICOCCUM DIMIDIATUM;

EID: 55149113057     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802172017     Document Type: Article

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