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    Subcutaneous abscess due to the basidiomycete Phellinus mori in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease

    Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a primary immunodeficiency caused by impaired phagocyte killing of intracellular pathogens, is characterized by recurrent, life-threatening, bacterial and fungal infections...

    T. Shigemura, Y. Nakazawa, Y. Amano, A. Sudo, M. Watanabe, M. Kobayashi in Infection (2015)

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    Safety, tolerability, and feasibility of antifungal prophylaxis with micafungin at 2 mg/kg daily in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

    Micafungin (MCFG) is used for the prophylaxis of invasive fungal disease (IFD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). However, the safety, efficacy, or optimal dosage/blood levels as ...

    K. Yoshikawa, Y. Nakazawa, Y. Katsuyama, K. Hirabayashi, S. Saito in Infection (2014)

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    Successful ganciclovir therapy in a patient with human herpesvirus-6 encephalitis after unrelated cord blood transplantation: usefulness of longitudinal measurements of viral load in cerebrospinal fluid

    There have been no reports of human herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) encephalitis treatment based on both HHV-6 DNA load and the antiviral agent’s concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

    K. Hirabayashi, Y. Nakazawa, Y. Katsuyama, T. Yanagisawa, S. Saito in Infection (2013)

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    Engraftment syndrome, but not acute GVHD, younger age, CYP3A5 or MDR1 polymorphisms, increases tacrolimus clearance in pediatric hematopoietic SCT

    We investigated clinical factors that affected the clearance of tacrolimus (FK506) administered by continuous drip infusion to children who had received allogeneic hematopoietic SCT. Blood FK506 levels were me...

    R Yanagisawa, Y Katsuyama, T Shigemura, S Saito, M Tanaka in Bone Marrow Transplantation (2011)

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    Femoral osteomyelitis due to Cladophialophora arxii in a patient with chronic granulomatous disease

    Fungal infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) are a poor prognostic factor. We describe the first case of CGD with femoral osteomyelitis due to Cladophialophora arxii, which is a member o...

    T. Shigemura, K. Agematsu, T. Yamazaki, K. Eriko, G. Yasuda, K. Nishimura in Infection (2009)