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Fusarium solani fungemia in a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
H Sridhar1, J R Subramanyam, L Appaji
1Department of Microbiology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Hosur Road, Bangalore 560 029, Karnataka, India.
Indian Journal of Cancer
|February 5, 2004
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A patient with ALL on anticancer chemotherapy developed fever which was later attributed to be due to Fusarium fungemia. The details of the case & a review of literature follows.
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