Persistent catheter-related Rhodotorula mucilaginosa fungemia in a leukemic child

Journal de Mycologie Medicale

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 134-137

  Al Obaid, I ^a   Khan, Z U ^b   Ahmad, S ^b   Emara, M ^a   Burhama, M ^a   Purohit, P ^a   Joseph, L ^b  

^a AL SABAH HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

^b KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Catheter; Leukemia; Persistent fungemia; Rhodotorula mucilaginosa

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BONE MARROW EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER REMOVAL; CHILD; DNA SEQUENCE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GINGIVA BLEEDING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; LIMB PAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALLOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RASH; RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

RHODOTORULA MUCILAGINOSA;

EID: 79958791037     PISSN: 11565233     EISSN: 17730449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycmed.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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