Postflood pseudofungemia due to penicillium species

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Apisarnthanarak, Anucha ^a   Khawcharoenporn, Thana ^a   Thongphubeth, Kanokporn ^a   Yuekyen, Chananart ^a   Damnin, Suwat ^b   Mungkornkaew, Narissara ^c   Mundy, Linda M ^d  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Thailand)

^d LM Mundy LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLOODING; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPHOMYCETES; INFECTION CONTROL; LABORATORY DEVICE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PENICILLIUM; POSTFLOOD PSEUDOFUNGEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNCEPHALASTRUM; THAILAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; FLOODS; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLIUM; THAILAND;

EID: 84864143105     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis413     Document Type: Article

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