1. Concomitant cases of disseminatedGeotrichum clavatuminfections in patients with acute myeloid leukemia
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Jean Ruiz, Françoise Huguet, Béatrice Riu-Poulenc, Pamela Chauvin, Alexis Valentin, Laurent Cavalié, Philippe Letocart, Xavier Verdeil, Christian Recher, Caroline Protin, Muriel Picard, Xavier Iriart, Sophie Cassaing, Bruno Marchou, Pharmacochimie et Biologie pour le Développement (PHARMA-DEV), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut de Chimie de Toulouse (ICT-FR 2599), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse (CHU Toulouse)
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Male ,Acute / complications ,Cancer Research ,medicine.medical_specialty ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Geotrichosis / drug therapy ,Intensive chemotherapy ,Neutropenia ,Gastroenterology ,MESH: Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis ,MESH: Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / complications ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fatal Outcome ,hemic and lymphatic diseases ,Internal medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy ,In patient ,Opportunistic Infections / complications ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Aged ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Acute leukemia ,030306 microbiology ,business.industry ,MESH: Geotrichosis / drug therapy ,MESH: Opportunistic Infections / complications ,Myeloid leukemia ,Hematology ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,MESH: Geotrichosis / complications ,Geotrichum ,Opportunistic Infections / diagnosis ,3. Good health ,MESH: Geotrichosis / diagnosis ,Oncology ,Geotrichosis / complications ,Leukemia Myeloid ,Concomitant ,Female ,MESH: Opportunistic Infections / drug therapy ,Geotrichum clavatum ,business ,Geotrichosis / diagnosis - Abstract
Patients with acute leukemia receiving intensive chemotherapy encounter deep and prolonged neutropenia, exposing them to life-threatening invasive fungal infections (IFIs). IFIs are frequently caus...
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- 2013
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