Invasive sino-orbital mycosis in an aplastic anemia patient caused by neosartorya laciniosa

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1316-1319

  Malejczyk, Kathy ^a   Sigler, Lynne ^a   Gibas, Connie Fe C ^a   Smith, Stephanie W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOSPORIN; MICAFUNGIN; STEROID; THYMOCYTE ANTIBODY; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NEOSARTORYA; NEOSARTORYA LACINIOSA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PANCYTOPENIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; DNA, FUNGAL; ECHINOCANDINS; EYE ENUCLEATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIPOPEPTIDES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; NEOSARTORYA; ORBITAL DISEASES; PHYLOGENY; PYRIMIDINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINUSITIS; TRIAZOLES;

FUNGI; NEOSARTORYA;

EID: 84875840059     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02919-12     Document Type: Article

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