Geoclimatic influences on invasive aspergillosis after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1588-1597

  Panackal, Anil A ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^c   Mori, Motomi ^b   Perego, Cheryl A ^c   Boeckh, Michael ^d   Marr, Kieren A ^d,e,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; AUTOLOGOUS HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BONE MARROW; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FUNGUS SPORE; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HAZARD RATIO; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; NONMYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; PERIPHERAL BLOOD STEM CELL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPORE GERMINATION; SUMMER; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEASONS; SPORES; TEXAS; WASHINGTON; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953004089     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652761     Document Type: Article

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