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Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report

We present a case report of disseminated fusariosis in a profoundly immunocompromised person. Early detection is key in this frequently-fatal infection; this case report emphasizes the findings with this infection and the need for chemoprophylaxis in appropriate patients.

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Autores principales: Dehal, Navdeep, Quimby, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788380
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5922
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spelling pubmed-68579212019-11-30 Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report Dehal, Navdeep Quimby, David Cureus Oncology We present a case report of disseminated fusariosis in a profoundly immunocompromised person. Early detection is key in this frequently-fatal infection; this case report emphasizes the findings with this infection and the need for chemoprophylaxis in appropriate patients. Cureus 2019-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6857921/ /pubmed/31788380 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5922 Text en Copyright © 2019, Dehal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Oncology
Dehal, Navdeep
Quimby, David
Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title_full Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title_fullStr Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title_short Disseminated Fusariosis in a Patient With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Case Report
title_sort disseminated fusariosis in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia: a case report
topic Oncology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6857921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788380
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5922
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