Fungemia and cutaneous zygomycosis due to Mucor circinelloides in an intensive care unit patient: Case report and review of literature

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 146-148

  Dizbay, Murat ^a   Adisen, Esra ^a   Kustimur, Semra ^a   Sari, Nuran ^a   Cengiz, Bulent ^a   Yalcin, Burce ^a   Kalkanci, Ayse ^a   Gonul, Ipek Isik ^a   Sugita, Takashi ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b MEIJI PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEMIPLEGIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG INFILTRATE; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; DERMATOMYCOSIS; HEART INFARCTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DERMATOMYCOSES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MUCOR; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 66849083900     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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