Zygomycosis Presenting a Major Clinical Challenge: Case Report on Rhizomucor pusillus Infection in a Stem-Cell-Transplant Recipient

Mycopathologia

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 241-245

  Kivivuori, Sanna Maria ^a   Karikoski, Riitta ^b   Koukila Kähkölä, Pirkko ^c   Anttila, Veli Jukka ^b   Saarinen Pihkala, Ulla M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Rhizomucor pusillus; Stem cell transplantation; Zygomycosis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RHIZOMUCOR; SKIN; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; NECROSIS; RHIZOMUCOR; SKIN; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSPLANTATION; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

FUNGI; MUCORALES; RHIZOMUCOR; RHIZOMUCOR PUSILLUS;

EID: 79960594834     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-011-9424-8     Document Type: Article

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