Epidemiology of visceral mycoses in autopsy cases in Japan: The data from 1989 to 2009 in the Annual of Pathological Autopsy Cases in Japan

Medical Mycology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 522-526

  Suzuki, Yuhko ^a,b   Kume, Hikaru ^a   Togano, Tomiteru ^a   Kanoh, Yuhsaku ^a   Ohto, Hitoshi ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Epidemiology; Japan; Mycoses; Visceral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; AUTOPSY; CANDIDA; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONIDIOBOLUS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTOMOPHTHOROMYCOSIS; FEMALE; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; JAPAN; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; PREVALENCE; PSEUDALLESCHERIASIS; SCEDOSPORIUM; TRICHOSPORON; TRICHOSPORONOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VISCERAL MYCOSIS; ZYGOMYCETES;

ASPERGILLUS; CANDIDA; FUNGI; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 84879982238     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2012.755574     Document Type: Article

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