Disseminated Geosmithia argillacea infection in a patient with gastrointestinal GvHD

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 734-736

  Valentin, T ^a   Neumeister, P ^a   Pichler, M ^a   Rohn, A ^a   Koidl, C ^a   Haas, D ^a   Heiling, B ^a   Asslaber, M ^a   Zollner Schwetz, I ^a   Hoenigl, M ^a   Salzer, H J F ^a   Krause, R ^a   Buzina, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GALACTOMANNAN; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED GEOSMITHIA ARGILLACEA INFECTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FUSARIUM; GASTROINTESTINAL CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAECILOMYCES; PENICILLIUM; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ZYGOMYCETES;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; EUROTIALES; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 84860887458     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2011.149     Document Type: Letter

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