Rhino-orbitocerebral zygomycosis caused by Conidiobolus incongruus in an immunocompromised patient in Germany

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 4322-4325

  Wüppenhorst, Nicole ^a   Lee, Mi Kyung ^a   Rappold, Elfriede ^a   Kayser, Gian ^a   Beckervordersandforth, Jan ^a   De With, Katja ^a   Serr, Annerose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; BACTERIAL RNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFUROXIME; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR RECEPTOR; HEMOGLOBIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POSACONAZOLE; RNA 18S; VORICONAZOLE;

AGAR MEDIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONIDIOBOLUS; CONIDIOBOLUS INCONGRUUS; CONIDIUM; EPSILOMETER TEST; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GERMANY; GRANULOCYTE; HEMATOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORBITAL INFLAMMATION; PANCYTOPENIA; PARANASAL SINUS; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PLASMA CELL; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINO ORBITOCEREBRAL ZYGOMYCOSIS; SINUSITIS; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

AGED; CONIDIOBOLUS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENCEPHALITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENES, RRNA; GERMANY; HEAD; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; ORBITAL CELLULITIS; RHINITIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

CONIDIOBOLUS INCONGRUUS; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; MUCORALES;

EID: 78049512034     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01188-10     Document Type: Article

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