A rare, fatal case of invasive spinal aspergillosis in an antiretroviral-naïve, HIV-infected man with pre-existing lung colonization

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1534-1538

  Rossouw, Inéz ^a   Goedhals, Dominique ^a   Merwe, Jeanette van der ^a   Stallenberg, Victor ^a   Govender, Nelesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BONE BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FECES INCONTINENCE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; INVASIVE SPINAL ASPERGILLOSIS; LIMB WEAKNESS; LUNG CAVITATION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUCONAZOLE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LUNG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROASPERGILLOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053134558     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.031146-0     Document Type: Article

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