Acremonium Species: A Review of the Etiological Agents of Emerging Hyalohyphomycosis

Mycopathologia

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 361-375

  Das, Shukla ^a   Saha, Rumpa ^a   Dar, Sajad Ahmad ^a   Ramachandran, V G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Acremonium; Antifungals; Hyalohyphomycosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ACREMONIUM; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACREMONIUM; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MYCOSES; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

ACREMONIUM (ASCOMYCOTA); FUNGI;

EID: 78049338636     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-010-9334-1     Document Type: Review

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