Early clinical and laboratory diagnosis of invasive pulmonary, extrapulmonary, and disseminated mucormycosis (zygomycosis)

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Walsh, Thomas J ^a   Gamaletsou, Maria N ^a,e   McGinnis, Michael R ^b   Hayden, Randall T ^d   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INVASIVE MUCORMYCOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG LAVAGE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA, FUNGAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MUCORALES; MUCORMYCOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ZYGOMYCOSIS;

EID: 84855869756     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir868     Document Type: Article

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