Our recommendations for avoiding exposure to fungi outside the hospital for patients with haematological cancers

Mycoses

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 336-341

  Ariza Heredia, Ella J ^a   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a,b  

^a Department of Infectious Diseases Infection Control and Employee Health ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Fungal; Infection; Neutropenia; Prevention

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

CANCER PATIENT; DUST; FOOD SAFETY; FUSARIUM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAND WASHING; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LEISURE; MALASSEZIA; MUCORMYCOSIS; MYCOSIS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAVEL; WATER QUALITY; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; MYCOSES; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

FUNGI;

COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 84900491671     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12167     Document Type: Review

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