Cavitary pulmonary zygomycosis caused by Rhizopus homothallicus

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1965-1969

  Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a   Marak, Rungmei S K ^b   Shivaprakash, M R ^a   Gupta, Sunita ^a   Garg, Rajiv ^c   Sakhuja, V ^a   Singhal, Sanjay ^c   Baghela, Abhishek ^a   Dixit, Ajai ^b   Garg, M K ^a   Padhye, Arvind A ^d  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^c KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

28S RIBOSOMAL DNA; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CAVITARY PULMONARY ZYGOMYCOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS SPORE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MUCORMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOPUS; RHIZOPUS HOMOTHALLICUS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RHIZOPUS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THORACIC CAVITY; TOMOGRAPHY; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

RHIZOPUS HOMOTHALLICUS;

EID: 77951811797     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01272-09     Document Type: Article

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