An unusual cluster of Acremonium kiliense fungaemias in a haematopoietic cell transplantation unit

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 313-316

  Ioakimidou, Aliki ^a   Vyzantiadis, Timoleon Achilleas ^a   Sakellari, Ioanna ^b   Arabatzis, Michael ^c   Smias, Christos ^b   Douka, Vassiliki ^b   Velegraki, Aristea ^c   Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas ^b   Malissiovas, Nikolaos ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b G PAPANICOLAOU HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acremonium kiliense; Fungaemia; Haematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIDULAFUNGIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACREMONIUM; ACREMONIUM KILIENSE; ACUTE GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACREMONIUM; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOSES; PRECURSOR CELL LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873741776     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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