Two Possible Cases of Trichosporon Infections in Bone-Marrow-Transplanted Children: the First Case of T. japonicum Isolated from Clinical Specimens

Trichosporon spp. are emerging as opportunistic agents that cause systemic diseases in immunocompromised hosts. Trichosporonosis carries a poor prognosis in neutropenic patients. Trichosporon japonicum was isolated from the air and named by Sugita et al. Here we present the first case of T. japonicu...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 2008/03/28, Vol.61(2), pp.130-132
Hauptverfasser:	Ağırbaşlı, Handan, Bilgen, Hulya, Özcan, Sema Keceli, Otlu, Baris, Sinik, Gulce, Çerikçioğlu, Nilgün, Durmaz, Riza, Can, Emine, Yalman, Nevin, Gedikoğlu, Gunduz, Sugita, Takashi
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics, Antineoplastic - therapeutic use Antifungal Agents - therapeutic use Bone Marrow Transplantation - immunology Child Fatal Outcome Female Humans Idarubicin - therapeutic use Immunocompromised Host Infant Itraconazole - therapeutic use Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - therapy Male Mycoses - complications Mycoses - drug therapy Neutropenia - complications Opportunistic Infections - complications Opportunistic Infections - microbiology Polymerase Chain Reaction Trichosporon - classification Trichosporon - genetics Trichosporon - isolation & purification
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