Death by edible mushroom: First report of Volvariella volvacea as an etiologic agent of invasive disease in a patient following double umbilical cord blood transplantation

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4329-4332

  Salit, R B ^a   Shea, Y R ^a   Gea Banacloche, J ^a   Fahle, G A ^a   Abu Asab, M ^a   Sugui, J A ^b   Carpenter, A E ^a   Quezado, M M ^a   Bishop, M R ^a   Kwon Chung, K J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; FLUDARABINE; GEMCITABINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; IFOSFAMIDE; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MICAFUNGIN; NAVELBINE; POSACONAZOLE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; TERBINAFINE; VINBLASTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN BIOPSY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DOUBLE UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDIBLE MUSHROOM; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HLA MATCHING; HUMAN; INFECTION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG INFARCTION; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NODULAR SCLEROSIS HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED INTENSITY CONDITIONING; RESUSCITATION; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS INFECTION; VOLVARIELLA; VOLVARIELLA VOLVACEA;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5.8S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VOLVARIELLA;

AGARICALES; BASIDIOMYCOTA; VOLVARIELLA VOLVACEA;

EID: 78049498366     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01222-10     Document Type: Article

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