Distribution of filamentous fungi causing invasive fungal disease at the Haematological Unit, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil

Very limited data are available in the literature to elucidate the aetiology of invasive mould infections in Latin America. Here we report that Aspergillus species caused only half of such cases in a cohort study conducted over 21 months in a university hospital in Porto Alegre, Southern Brazil. Fus...

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Main Authors: Valério Rodrigues Aquino, Emanuelle Bergonsi Verçosa, Gustavo Falhauber, Luciano Werle Lunardi, Lucia Silla, Alessandro Comarú Pasqualotto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010-05-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1413867010700568