Cutaneous infection caused by Macrophomina phaseolina in a child with acute myeloid leukemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1969-1972

  Srinivasan, Ashok ^a,c   Wickes, Brian L ^b   Romanelli, Anna M ^b   Debelenko, Larisa ^a   Rubnitz, Jeffrey E ^a,c   Sutton, Deanna A ^b   Thompson, Elizabeth H ^b   Fothergill, Annette W ^b   Rinaldi, Michael G ^b   Hayden, Randall T ^a   Shenep, Jerry L ^a,c  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOFARABINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUDARABINE; HEMOGLOBIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; MELPHALAN; MEROPENEM; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; TERBINAFINE; THIOTEPA; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCUBATION TIME; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHOMINA PHASEOLINA; MYCOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHYLAXIS; PUNCH BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHILD; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SKIN; TRIAZOLES;

FUNGI; MACROPHOMINA PHASEOLINA;

EID: 66749092402     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02397-08     Document Type: Article

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