Isolated Candida infection of the lung

Respiratory Medicine Case Reports

Volumn 16, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-19

  Shweihat, Yousef ^a   Perry, James ^a   Shah, Darshana ^a  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Candida; Immunodeficiency; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANDIDA; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CELL DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG NODULE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY CANDIDIASIS; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

EID: 84932623691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22130071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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