Disseminated trichosporonosis in a burn patient: Meningitis and cerebral abscess due to Trichosporon asahii

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4405-4408

  Heslop, Orville D ^a   Nyi, May Phyo Nyi ^a   Abbott, Sean P ^b   Rainford, Lois E ^a   Castle, Daphney M ^a   Coard, Kathleen C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Natural Link Mold Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; TETRACYCLINE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAIN ABSCESS; BURN; BURN PATIENT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEATH; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISSEMINATED TRICHOSPORONOSIS; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MENINGITIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ABSCESS; BURNS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; MENINGITIS, FUNGAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORONOSIS;

EID: 82455186793     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.05028-11     Document Type: Article

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