Fatal aspergillus flavus infection in a neonate

Fetal and Pediatric Pathology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-244

  Roncati, Luca ^a   Barbolini, Giuseppe ^a   Fano, Rita Adriana ^a   Rivasi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

aspergillus flavus; noso comial infection; perinatal invasive aspergillosis; prematurity

Indexed keywords

BILIRUBIN GLUCURONIDE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DIAZEPAM; DOPAMINE; GLUCOSE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PIPERACILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANEMIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; AUTOPSY; AXILLARY VEIN; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CYANOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; GALLBLADDER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; LIVER; MESENTERY; MOUTH CAVITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; OLIGURIA; PERINATAL INFECTION; PLACENTA; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SKIN; SKIN DEFECT; STOMACH; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYMUS ATROPHY; TONGUE; TONGUE ULCER; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VASCULITIS; ASPERGILLOSIS; CROSS INFECTION; FATALITY; FEMALE; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; CROSS INFECTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PREGNANCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954513325     PISSN: 15513815     EISSN: 15513823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15513811003789636     Document Type: Article

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