Chromoblastomycosis caused by fonsecaea: Clinicopathology, susceptibility and molecular identification of seven consecutive cases in southern China

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1023-1028

  Yang, Y P ^a   Li, W ^a   Huang, W M ^a   Zhou, Y ^a   Fan, Y M ^a  

^a GUANGDONG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chromoblastomycosis; Fonsecaea monophora; Fonsecaea pedrosoi; Strain identification; Susceptibility test

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CHINA; CHROMOMYCOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FONSECAEA; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI;

CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS; FONSECAEA MONOPHORA; FONSECAEA PEDROSOI; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHINA; CHROMOBLASTOMYCOSIS; DNA, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NAPHTHALENES; PYRIMIDINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 84885479651     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12067     Document Type: Article

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