Fatal post-operative Trichoderma longibrachiatum mediastinitis and peritonitis in a paediatric patient with complex congenital cardiac disease on peritoneal dialysis

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1869-1871

  Santillan Salas, Carlos F ^a   Joshi, Avni Y ^b   Dhiman, Neelam ^b   Banerjee, Ritu ^a   Charles Huskins, W ^a   Wengenack, Nancy L ^b   Henry, Nancy K ^a  

^a Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; CASPOFUNGIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MEDIASTINITIS; NONHUMAN; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA LONGIBRACHIATUM;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHINOCANDINS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MEDIASTINITIS; MYCOSES; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PERITONITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIMIDINES; SPLEEN; TRIAZOLES; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 81355132769     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.030718-0     Document Type: Article

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