Aspergillus fumigatus spondylodiskitis in renal transplant patient: Voriconazole experience

Experimental and Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 265-269

  Ersoy, Alparslan ^a   Dizdar, Oguzhan Sitki ^a   Koc, Aysegul Oruc ^a   Akalin, Halis ^a   Ener, Beyza ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aspergillus fumigatus; Immunosuppression; Renal transplant; Spondylodiskitis; Voriconazole

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ETHAMBUTOL; GANCICLOVIR; ISONIAZID; OFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; TEICOPLANIN; VALACICLOVIR; VORICONAZOLE;

ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACKACHE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; SPONDYLITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACK PAIN; DISCITIS; DISKECTOMY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYRIMIDINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84860421488     PISSN: 13040855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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