Primary subcutaneous Alternaria alternata infection of the hand in an immunocompromised host

Medical Mycology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 543-547

  Kpodzo, Dzifa S ^a   Calderwood, Michael S ^b   Ruchelsman, David E ^b   Abramson, Jeremy S ^c   Piris, Adriano ^b   Winograd, Jonathan M ^b   Kotton, Camille N ^b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternaria spp.; antifungal therapy; fungal hand infections; immunocompromised; surgical management

Indexed keywords

1,3 BETA GLUCAN SYNTHASE; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; STEROID; VORICONAZOLE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA; ALTERNARIOSIS; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CANCER PATIENT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; EXCISION; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; HAND INFECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NIGHT SWEAT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHAEOHYPHOMYCOSIS; RIGOR; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN NODULE; STEROID THERAPY;

ALTERNARIA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOPSY; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATOMYCOSES; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HAND; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALTERNARIA; ALTERNARIA ALTERNATA;

EID: 79959202045     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2011.555848     Document Type: Article

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