Molecular diagnosis of Aspergillus fumigatus endocarditis

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 534-537

  Palomares, José C ^a   Bernal, Samuel ^a   Marín, María ^a   Holgado, Victoria Pérez ^a   Castro, Carmen ^a   Morales, Willy Pinto ^a   Martin, Estrella ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aspergillus endocarditis; Fungal emerging infection; Molecular diagnostic method; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL; FUNGAL DNA; GALACTOMANNAN; GENTAMICIN; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CULTURE; BRADYCARDIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COUGHING; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEVER; FUNGAL ENDOCARDITIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOGLYCEMIA; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPUTUM CULTURE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; AUTOPSY; BETA-GLUCANS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; MANNANS; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 79960369948     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2011.04.010     Document Type: Article

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