Taber's Medical Dictionary
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, 24th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2021. Nursing Central Redesign, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium.
Chaetomium. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium. Accessed January 22, 2022.
Chaetomium. (2021). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (24th edition). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium
Chaetomium [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2021. [cited 2022 January 22]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/732151/all/Chaetomium.
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