Mycotic endocarditis due to candida albicans
| Autor: | Joseph Greengard, Helen Maclean, Ralph H. Kunstadter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1952 |
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Sporotrichosis
medicine.diagnostic_test biology Endocarditis Heart Diseases business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Aspergillosis Histoplasmosis Microbiology Mycoses Candida albicans medicine Humans Blood culture Actinomycosis Disease business Blastomycosis Candida Endocardium |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Medical Association. 149(9) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9955 |
| Popis: | During the past decade there has been an increasing interest manifested in systemic fungus disease as evidenced by the large number of reports in the literature. Actinomycosis, blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis, torulosis, moniliasis, sporotrichosis, and aspergillosis represent a group of mycotic diseases that occur in the United States and that may become disseminated, often terminating fatally.1However, endocarditis due to fungi is exceedingly rare2and, to the best of our knowledge, has not been described in infancy and has been reported only once in a child under 15 years of age.3 Twenty-four cases of mycotic endocarditis have been found in the literature.4Among these, the organism was identified in 19 instances. In four cases an unidentified fungus was present, and in one case a fungus was identified in a blood culture but no autopsy was performed. In nine of the 24 cases, the disease was caused by |
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