Increasing Incidence of Mucormycosis in University Hospital, Belgium

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Saegeman, Veroniek ; Maertens, Johan ; Meersseman, Wouter ; Spriet, Isabel ; Verbeken, Eric ; Lagrou, Katrien
• Description:
  To determine why incidence of mucormycosis infections was increasing in a large university hospital in Belgium, we examined case data from 2000-2009. We found the increase was not related to voriconazole use but most probably to an increase in high-risk patients, particularly those with underlying hematologic malignancies.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Fungi
  • invasive fungal disease
  • incidence
  • voriconazole
  • hematologic neoplasms
  • hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • mucormycosis
  • opportunistic infections
  • Belgium
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 16(9):1456-1458.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  16
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/18259/cdc_18259_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 134.70 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ef75fbbff804e0e04645e8e0c23fccadda3312333c05ac9321636b883c3f2c31