Dimorphic Fungal Osteoarticular Infections
Blandine Rammaert 1,2, Maria N. Gamaletsou 3,4, Valérie Zeller 5, Caroline Elie 6, Roberta Prinapori 7, Saad J.
Taj-Aldeen 8, Emmanuel Roilides 4,9, Dimitri P. Kontoyiannis 10, Barry Brause 4,11, Nikolas V. Sipsas 3,4, Thomas
J. Walsh 4,11,12 and Olivier Lortholary 1,2.
1
Université Paris-Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, APHP, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales,
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Centre d’Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, Institut Imagine, Paris, France
2
Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
3
Pathophysiology Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
4
Center for Osteoarticular Mycoses, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, USA
5
Centre de Référence des Infections Ostéo-Articulaires, Groupe Hospitalier Diaconesses-Croix Saint-Simon,
Paris, France
6
Unité de Recherche Clinique Paris Centre Necker, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris Descartes,
Sorbonne Paris Cité, APHP, Paris, France
7
Infectious Disease Department, San Martino di Genoa Hospital, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
8
Mycology Unit, Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical
Corporation, Doha, Qatar
9
Third Department of Pediatrics, Aristotle University School of Medicine, Hippokration Hospital, Thessaloniki,
Greece
10
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
11
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, USA
12
Transplantation-Oncology Infectious Diseases Program, Weill Cornell Medical Center of Cornell University,
New York, USA
Correspondence to:
Pr. O. Lortholary, M.D.; Ph.D
Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales
Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris-Descartes
149, rue de Sèvres
75743 Paris Cedex 15
Tél: (33) 01 42 19 26 63
Fax: (33) 01 42 19 26 22
olivier.lortholary@nck.aphp.fr
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