TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in a liver transplant recipient with central nervous system invasive aspergillosis
AU - Neofytos, Dionissios
AU - Shoham, Shmuel
AU - Dierberg, Kerry
AU - Le, Katharine
AU - Dufresne, Simon
AU - Zhang, Sean X.
AU - Marr, Kieren A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This manuscript was, in part, supported by a National Institute of Health K24, AI85118 grant.
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - This is a case report of central nervous system (CNS) invasive aspergillosis (IA) in a liver transplant recipient, which illustrates the utility of enzyme-based diagnostic tools for the timely and accurate diagnosis of IA, the treatment challenges and poor outcomes associated with CNS IA in liver transplant recipients.
AB - This is a case report of central nervous system (CNS) invasive aspergillosis (IA) in a liver transplant recipient, which illustrates the utility of enzyme-based diagnostic tools for the timely and accurate diagnosis of IA, the treatment challenges and poor outcomes associated with CNS IA in liver transplant recipients.
KW - Central nervous system infection
KW - Invasive aspergillosis
KW - Liver transplant recipient
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U2 - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.05.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 22676861
AN - SCOPUS:84863774640
SN - 0732-8893
VL - 73
SP - 374
EP - 375
JO - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
JF - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
IS - 4
ER -