Systemic infection with Aureobasidium pullulans in a leukaemic patient.
Aureobasidium pullulans, a conidial fungus widely distributed in the environment, was repeatedly isolated from the blood of a 28-year-old man with acute myeloid leukaemia. Amphotericin B failed to eliminate the organism.
Kaczmarski
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Liu Yin
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Tooth
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JA
Love
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Delamore
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D000328:Adult; D000666:Amphotericin B / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D015470:Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009181:Mycoses / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000382:microbiology
D000666:Amphotericin B