Pulmonary infection due to Pseudozyma aphidis in a patient with burkitt lymphoma: First case report

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 104-106

  de Carvalho Parahym, Ana Maria Rabelo ^a   da Silva, Carolina Maria ^a   Domingos, Igor de Farias ^a   Gonçalves, Sarah Santos ^b   de Melo Rodrigues, Márcia ^c   de Morais, Vera Lúcia Lins ^c   Neves, Rejane Pereira ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE MICOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b Laboratório Especial de Micologia   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Universitario Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Burkitt lymphoma; Mycologic diagnosis; Pseudozyma aphidis; Pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANIDULAFUNGIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUCONAZOLE; IFOSFAMIDE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; ITRACONAZOLE; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; RIBOSOME DNA; UREA; VINCRISTINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMORPH; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCONIDIA; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOODY SPUTUM; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COUGHING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROLYSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOZYMA APHIDIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPUTUM; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UREA HYDROLYSIS; VEIN PUNCTURE; VENOUS BLOOD; YEAST CELL;

ADOLESCENT; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; USTILAGINALES;

EID: 84870754714     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.09.010     Document Type: Article

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