Imaging features of fungal infection in immuno-suppressed patients in a local ward outbreak

Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Ahmad Sarji, Sazilah ^a   Wan Abdullah, W A ^a   Wastie, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Air contamination; Aspergillosis; Fungal infection; Leukaemia

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFANT; KIDNEY INFECTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG CAVITATION; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; MYCOSIS; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 57049118576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18235530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2349/biij.2.2.e21     Document Type: Article

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