Fatal peritonitis caused by Rhizopus microsporus

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1096-1098

  Hyvernat, Hervé ^a   Dunais, Brigitte ^b   Burel Vandenbos, Fanny ^c   Guidicelli, Sarah ^a   Bernardin, Gilles ^a   Gari Toussaint, Martine ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b Department of Infectiology ^*  (France)

^c PASTEUR HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

nosocomial infection; peritonitis; Rhizopus microsporus; voriconazole; zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZATHIOPRINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NORADRENALIN; RIBOSOME DNA; VORICONAZOLE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BLADDER MUSCLE; CASE REPORT; COLON PERFORATION; COLOSTOMY; CROHN DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GANGRENE; HEMODYNAMICS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; ILEOSTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROSIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RHIZOPUS; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ZYGOMYCETES;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COLON; CROHN DISEASE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MIDDLE AGED; MUCORMYCOSIS; PERITONITIS; PYRIMIDINES; RHIZOPUS; TRIAZOLES;

FUNGI; RHIZOPUS MICROSPORUS;

EID: 78449232304     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2010.485281     Document Type: Article

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