Trichosporon asahii as a prospective pathogen in solid organ transplant recipients

Mycoses

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-265

  Netsvyetayeva, I ^a   Swoboda Kopec E ^a   Paczek, L ^a   Fiedor, P ^a   Sikora, M ^a   Jaworska Zaremba, M ^a   Blachnio, S ^a   Luczak, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colonisation; Invasive infection; Solid organ transplant recipients; Trichosporon asahii

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATITIS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MYCOSES; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRANSPLANTS; TRICHOSPORON;

FUNGI; TRICHOSPORON (UNCLASSIFIED); TRICHOSPORON ASAHII;

EID: 63849227279     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2008.01590.x     Document Type: Article

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