Kodamaea Ohmeri Fungemia in an Immunocompetent Patient Treated with Micafungin: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Mycopathologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 223-228

  Shaaban, Hamid ^a   Choo, Hoo Feng ^a   Boghossian, Jack ^a   Perez, George ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Kodamaea Ohmeri; Micafungin; Thrombophlebitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ECHINOCANDIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; LIPOPEPTIDE; MICAFUNGIN; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 26S;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DENTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGEMIA; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA GENE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; DENTURES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECHINOCANDINS; FUNGEMIA; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; LIPOPEPTIDES; MALE; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

FISTULA; FUNGI; KODAMAEA OHMERI; PICHIA;

EID: 77956396891     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-010-9315-4     Document Type: Review

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