Increasing Incidence of Mucormycosis in University Hospital, Belgium

To determine why incidence of mucormycosis infections was increasing in a large university hospital in Belgium, we examined case data from 2000–2009. We found the increase was not related to voriconazole use but most probably to an increase in high-risk patients, particularly those with underlying h...

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Autores principales: Saegeman, Veroniek, Maertens, Johan, Meersseman, Wouter, Spriet, Isabel, Verbeken, Eric, Lagrou, Katrien
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Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3294978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20735932
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100276
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author Saegeman, Veroniek
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spelling pubmed-32949782012-03-07 Increasing Incidence of Mucormycosis in University Hospital, Belgium Saegeman, Veroniek Maertens, Johan Meersseman, Wouter Spriet, Isabel Verbeken, Eric Lagrou, Katrien Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch To determine why incidence of mucormycosis infections was increasing in a large university hospital in Belgium, we examined case data from 2000–2009. We found the increase was not related to voriconazole use but most probably to an increase in high-risk patients, particularly those with underlying hematologic malignancies. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2010-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3294978/ /pubmed/20735932 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1609.100276 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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