Disseminated Trichosporon mycotoxinivorans, Aspergillus fumigatus, and Scedosporium apiospermum coinfection after lung and liver transplantation in a cystic fibrosis patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4168-4170

  Hirschi, Sandrine ^a   Letscher Bru, Valérie ^a   Pottecher, Julien ^a   Lannes, Béatrice ^a   Jeung, Mi Young ^a   Degot, Tristan ^a   Santelmo, Nicola ^a   Sabou, Alina Marcela ^a   Herbrecht, Raoul ^a   Kessler, Romain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASILIXIMAB; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; TACROLIMUS; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPERGILLOSIS; BRONCHOPLEURAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDALLESCHERIASIS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; QUADRIPLEGIA; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOMNOLENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORON MYCOTOXINIVORANS INFECTION; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CEREBRUM; COINFECTION; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MYCOSES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SCEDOSPORIUM; TRANSPLANTATION; TRICHOSPORON;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; PSEUDALLESCHERIA BOYDII; TRICHOSPORON MYCOTOXINIVORANS;

EID: 84869211412     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01928-12     Document Type: Article

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