Fungal colonization in patients with chronic respiratory diseases from Himalayan region of India

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Biswas, Debasis ^a   Agarwal, Sonal ^a   Sindhwani, Girish ^a   Rawat, Jagdish ^a  

^a HIMALAYAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS ANTIBODY; PRECIPITIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; ASTHMA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOPLASM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PANCYTOPENIA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, FUNGAL; ASPERGILLUS; BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956641481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-0711-9-28     Document Type: Article

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