A case of bronchial aspergillosis caused by Aspergillus udagawae and its mycological features

Medical Mycology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 631-636

  Gyotoku, Hiroshi ^a,b   Izumikawa, Koichi ^b   Ikeda, Hideki ^a   Takazono, Takahiro ^b   Morinaga, Yoshitomo ^c   Nakamura, Shigeki ^b   Imamura, Yoshifumi ^b   Nishino, Tomoya ^b   Miyazaki, Taiga ^b   Kakeya, Hiroshi ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshihiro ^b   Yanagihara, Katsunori ^c   Yasuoka, Akira ^c   Yaguchi, Takashi ^d   Ohno, Hideaki ^e   Miyzaki, Yoshitsugu ^e   Kamei, Katsuhiko ^d   Kanda, Tetsuro ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^b  

^a Goto Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus udagawae; Bronchial aspergillosis; Diabetes mellitus

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMPHOTERICIN B; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; MICAFUNGIN;

AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS UDAGAWAE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CYTOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SIDE EFFECT; SPUTUM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; BLEEDING TENDENCY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; MOUSE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; BRONCHOSCOPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG; MICE; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; MUS; NEOSARTORYA UDAGAWAE;

EID: 84863891395     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2011.639036     Document Type: Article

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