Chaetomium
(kē″tōm′ē-ŭm )
[Gr. chaitē, hair]
A genus of filamentous, pigmented fungi that decompose plants and plant materials. They are an occasional cause of nail and skin infections in normal hosts and of serious systemic infections in immunocompromised patients.
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Venes, Donald, editor. "Chaetomium." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 23rd ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2017. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium.
Chaetomium. In: Venes D, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. 23rd ed. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium. Accessed April 26, 2019.
Chaetomium. (2017). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary. Available from https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium
Chaetomium [Internet]. In: Venes D, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2017. [cited 2019 April 26]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium.
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