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Mycotic infection and the pediatric surgeon

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The incidence of major fungal infection in recent years has paralleled increasing use of immunosuppressive drugs, broad spectrum antibiotics and implantable catheters and prostheses. The pediatric surgeon encounters fungi as agents of perioperative infection and anatomic disease requiring surgical intervention. Clinical mycology is increasingly challenged by a wide spectrum of unfamiliar fungi, fungal infections and antimycotic drugs. An overview of the expanding role of surgical mycosis in children is presented.

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Nagar, H. Mycotic infection and the pediatric surgeon. Mycopathologia 112, 147–155 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00436645

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