Successful treatment of a child with vascular pythiosis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sudjaritruk, Tavitiya ^a   Sirisanthana, Virat ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOXACILLIN; FUNGUS ANTIBODY; FUNGUS VACCINE; ITRACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE;

ABOVE KNEE AMPUTATION; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTHROCENTESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BETA THALASSEMIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CLAUDICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GANGRENE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYOMYOSITIS; PYTHIOSIS; PYTHIUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN ULCER; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; AMPUTATION; ILIAC ARTERY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEG; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

AMPUTATION; CHILD; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; LEG; MALE; PYTHIOSIS; PYTHIUM;

EID: 79251542676     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-11-33     Document Type: Article

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