Malassezia: Is it a pulmonary pathogen in the stem cell transplant population?

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-317

  Blaes, A H ^a   Cavert, W P ^a   Morrison, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection; Malassezia; Malassezia furfur; Stem cell transplantation

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CASPOFUNGIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; IMIPENEM; LINEZOLID; MICAFUNGIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTUBATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG RESECTION; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALE; METACHROMATIC LEUKODYSTROPHY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE FLAP; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RHIZOPUS; RIB RESECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM CULTURE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; MYCOSES; SPUTUM; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 68849105266     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2009.00404.x     Document Type: Article

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