Rasamsonia argillacea pulmonary and aortic graft infection in an immune-competent patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 719-722

  Doyon, Jeffrey B ^a   Sutton, Deanna A ^b   Theodore, Pierre ^c   Dhillon, Gurmohan ^a   Jones, Kirk D ^c   Thompson, Elizabeth H ^b   Fu, Jianmin ^d   Wickes, Brian L ^d   Koehler, Jane E ^c   Schwartz, Brian S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; ITRACONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; AORTIC GRAFT INFECTION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRAFT INFECTION; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROTHORAX; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM; PLEURAL FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL DESCENDING THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; PULMONARY GRAFT INFECTION; RASAMSONIA ARGILLACEA; THERAPY DELAY; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; VASCULAR STENT;

AORTITIS; BRONCHIECTASIS; EUROTIALES; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873053590     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02884-12     Document Type: Article

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