Filamentous fungal infections of the cornea: A global overview of epidemiology and drug sensitivity

Mycoses

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 243-260

  Kredics, László ^a   Narendran, Venkatapathy ^b   Shobana, Coimbatore Subramanian ^c   Vágvölgyi, Csaba ^a,d   Manikandan, Palanisamy ^b,e   Varga, János ^a   Galgóczy, László ^a   Kocsubé, Sándor ^a   Németh, Tibor Mihály ^a   Papp, Tamás ^a   Homa, Mónika ^a   Baranyi, Nikolett ^a   Szekeres, András ^a   Körmöczi, Péter ^a   Krizsán, Krisztina ^a   Anita, Raghavan ^b   Revathi, Rajaraman ^b   Gomathi, Perumal ^b   Hassan, Anamangadan Shafeeq ^f   Singh, Yendrembam Randhir Babu ^f   Mythili, Arumugam ^f   Selvam, Kanesan Panneer ^g   Dóczi, Ilona ^h   Leitgeb, Balázs ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^c PSG COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (India)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e MAJMAAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f Dr GR Damodaran College of Science   (India)

^g MR Government Arts College   (India)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Antifungal susceptibility; Aspergillus; Curvularia; Epidemiology; Eye infections; Fusarium; Keratitis; Molecular identification

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; POLYENE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ASPERGILLUS; CURVULARIA; FILAMENTOUS FUNGUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; KERATOMYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ASCOMYCETES; CORNEA; DEUTEROMYCETES; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KERATITIS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS; CURVULARIA; FUSARIUM;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; CORNEA; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI;

EID: 84924693751     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12306     Document Type: Review

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