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Abstract
The presence of fungi circulating in the blood. Opportunistic fungal sepsis is seen most often in immunosuppressed patients with severe neutropenia or in postoperative patients with intravenous catheters and usually follows prolonged antibiotic therapy.
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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coord with specific fungus/infect heading or specific fungus if specific fungus infect is not in MeSH (do not use /blood to indicate -emia)
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- Mycoses (1966-1991)
- specific fungal infection (1966-1991)
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- National Library of Medicine. Fungemia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D016469. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D016469
- Fungemia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungemia
- Fungemia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3491700