Invasive fungal infections in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and in those submitted to allogeneic hemopoietic stem cell transplant

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Caira, Morena
Girmenia, Corrado
Fadda, Rafaela Maria
Mitra, Maria Enza
Picardi, Marco
Van Lint, Maria Teresa
Nosari, Annamaria
Candoni, Anna
Bonini, Alessandro
Mattei, Daniele
de Waure, Chiara
Fianchi, Luana
Valentini, Caterina Giovanna
Aversa, Franco
Leone, Giuseppe
Pagano, Livio

¹Department of Hematology, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome; ²Hematology Division, La Sapienza University, Rome; ³Hematology Division and Transplant Unit, Palermo Hospital, Palermo; ⁴Hematology Division, Federico II University, Naples; ⁵Transplant Unit, S. Martino Hospital, Genova; ⁶Hematology Division and Transplant Unit, Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan; ⁷Hematology Division, Udine University, Udine; ⁸Hematology Division, Reggio Emilia Hospital, Reggio Emilia; ⁹Hematology Division, S. Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo; ¹⁰Department of Epidemiology, Università Cattolica S. Cuore, Rome; ¹¹Hematology Division, Perugia University, Perugia, Italy

Correspondence Morena Caira, MD, Istituto di Ematologia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, I-00168 Roma, Italia. Tel: +39-0630154180; Fax: +39-063051343; e-mail: [email protected]

European Journal of Haematology 81(3):p 242-243, September 2008.