Minireview: Malassezia infections in immunocompromised patients: Review article

Mycoses

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-195

  Tragiannidis, Athanasios ^a   Bisping, Guido ^b   Koehler, Gabriele ^b   Groll, Andreas H ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; HIV; Infection; Malassezia; Sepsis; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMIDAZOLE; SELENIUM;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FOLIICULITIS; MALASSEZIA FOLLICULITIS; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; MYCOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN BIOPSY; SUBSPECIES;

DERMATOMYCOSES; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALASSEZIA; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

MALASSEZIA;

EID: 77950857104     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2009.01814.x     Document Type: Review

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