Clinical presentation of zygomycosis

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2009, Pages 15-20

  Mantadakis, E ^a   Samonis, G ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Entomophthorales; Immunosuppression; Mucorales; Zygomycetes; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEFEROXAMINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASPERGILLOSIS; BURN; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; IRON CHELATION; IRON OVERLOAD; LUNG MYCOSIS; MALNUTRITION; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND; ZYGOMYCETES;

ENTOMOPHTHORALES; FUNGI; MUCORALES; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; HUMANS; MUCORALES; RISK FACTORS; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 70349990490     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.02974.x     Document Type: Review

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