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.
Funding Information:
Conflicts of Interest: D.N. has received research grants from Pfizer. S.S. has received research grants from Pfizer, Merck and Astellas and has served on advisory boards for Merck. K.A.M. has received grant support from Astellas, Merck and Pfizer and has served on advisory boards / or as consultant for Astellas, Basilea, Merck, Pfizer, Schering Plough. All other authors: No conflicts of interest.
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
VL - 73
SP - 374
EP - 375
JO - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
JF - Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
SN - 0732-8893
IS - 4
ER -