Drinking yerba mate infusion: A potential risk factor for invasive fungal diseases?

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 565-569

  Vieira, N O ^a   Peres, A ^a   Aquino, V R ^b   Pasqualotto, A C ^c  

^a CENTRO UNIVERSITÁRIO METODISTA IPA   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Dom Vicente Scherer   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Filamentous fungi; Food contamination; Ilex paraguariensis; Yerba mate

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BEVERAGE; BRAZIL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGAL CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PH; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BEVERAGES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGI; HUMANS; ILEX PARAGUARIENSIS; MYCOSES; RISK FACTORS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 78650139054     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2010.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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