Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis in children: An overlooked emerging infection?

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 871-880

  El Shabrawi, Mortada H F ^a   Kamal, Naglaa Mohamed ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; IODIDE; ITRACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; AMNESIA; ANOREXIA; APPENDICITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BASIDIOBOLOMYCOSIS; BILIARY DUCT STENTING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIARRHEA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EOSINOPHILIA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL BASIDIOBOLOMYCOSIS; GOLD STANDARD; HEMATOCHEZIA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOSE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; REVIEW; SCROTAL SWELLING; SKIN INFECTION; STENT; TREATMENT DURATION; URINE RETENTION; WEAKNESS;

CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ENTOMOPHTHORALES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 79959526024     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.028670-0     Document Type: Review

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