Fusarium infection: Report of 26 cases and review of 97 cases from the literature

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 305-316

  Muhammed, Maged ^a   Anagnostou, Theodora ^a,b   Desalermos, Athanasios ^a   Kourkoumpetis, Themistoklis K ^a   Carneiro, Herman A ^a   Glavis Bloom, Justin ^a   Coleman, Jeffrey J ^a,b   Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CASPOFUNGIN; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; POSACONAZOLE; STEROID; TACROLIMUS; TERBINAFINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FUNGAL SINUSITIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM ACUTATUM; FUSARIUM FALCIFORME; FUSARIUM MONILIFORME; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM PROLIFERATUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; FUSARIUM SUBGLUTINANS; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; LUNG MYCOSIS; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NOSE INFECTION; PERITONITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; THRUSH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887848936     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000008     Document Type: Article

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