Future directions in mucormycosis research.

نویسندگان

  • Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis
  • Russell E Lewis
  • Oliver Lortholary
  • Brad Spellberg
  • Georgios Petrikkos
  • Emmanuel Roilides
  • Ashraf Ibrahim
  • Thomas J Walsh
چکیده

Mucormycosis has emerged as an important opportunistic infection, especially in severely immunosuppressed hosts. The evolving epidemiology, immunopathogenesis, molecular virulence studies, early diagnosis, and pitfalls in designing clinical studies of mucormycosis are discussed in this article.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

دوره 54 Suppl 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012