Cerebral phaeohyphomycosis caused by Rhinocladiella mackenziei in a woman native to Afghanistan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3451-3454

  Cristini, Alejandro ^a   Garcia Hermoso, Dea ^b,c   Celard, Marie ^d   Albrand, Gilles ^e   Lortholary, Olivier ^b,c,f  

^a HÔPITAL NEUROLOGIQUE   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Center of biology and pathology   (France)

^e Hopital Geriatrique Antoine Charial   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; GENOMIC DNA; POSACONAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; VORICONAZOLE;

AFGHANISTAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; ATAXIC APHASIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FRANCE; FUNGUS; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MICROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINOCLADIELLA MACKENZIEI;

AFGHANISTAN; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASCOMYCOTA; BRAIN ABSCESS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

RHINOCLADIELLA;

EID: 77956806731     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00924-10     Document Type: Article

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