Proven Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Stem Cell Transplant Recipient Due to Aspergillus sublatus, a Cryptic Species of A. nidulans

Mycopathologia

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 423-429

  Chrenkova, Vanda ^a   Hubka, Vit ^b,c   Cetkovsky, Petr ^d   Kouba, Michal ^d   Weinbergerova, Barbora ^e   Lyskova, Pavlina ^f   Hornofova, Ludmila ^a   Hubacek, Petr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d INSTITUTE OF HEMATOLOGY AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^f Mycology and Mycobacteriology Prague   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aspergillus quadrilineatus; Aspergillus section Nidulantes; Haematopoietic stem cell transplant; Invasive aspergillosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CALMODULIN; FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; TUBULIN;

ASPERGILLUS; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FATALITY; GENETICS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE ASPERGILLOSIS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASPERGILLUS; CALMODULIN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FATAL OUTCOME; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INVASIVE PULMONARY ASPERGILLOSIS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC, B-CELL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS; TUBULIN;

EID: 85033468352     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: 15730832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-017-0223-8     Document Type: Article

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