Isolation of lodderomyces elongisporus from the catheter tip of a fungemia patient in the Middle East

Case Reports in Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ahmad, Suhail ^a   Khan, Zia U ^a   Johny, Molly ^b   Ashour, Najat M ^b   Al Tourah, Wehad H ^b   Joseph, Leena ^a   Chandy, Rachel ^a  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b AL AMIRI HOSPITAL   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; CLINDAMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN DISEASE; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; LODDEROMYCES ELONGISPORUS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899571392     PISSN: 16879627     EISSN: 16879635     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/560406     Document Type: Article

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