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Antifungal susceptibility and phenotypic characterization of oral isolates of a black fungus from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma patient under radiotherapy

BACKGROUND: During a research project on fungal Candida species in patients wearing obturator treated with radiotherapy for their recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma, we serendipitously observed the presence of black fungus in two consecutive samples from a patient. CASE PRESENTATION: The samples wer...

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Autores principales: Seneviratne, Chaminda Jayampath, Fong, Phoenix HL, Wong, Sarah SW, Lee, Victor HF
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4381516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25887752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-015-0023-9