Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis with Combination Amphotericin B and Flucytosine for Four as Compared with Six Weeks

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 317, Issue 6, 1987, Pages 334-341

  Dismukes, William E ^a,b,c,d   Cloud, Gretchen ^e   Gallis, Harry A ^e   Kerkering, Thomas M ^e   Medoff, Gerald ^e   Craven, Philip C ^e   Kaplowitz, Lisa G ^e   Fisher, John F ^e   Gregg, Clark R ^e   Bowles, Cynthia A ^e   Shadomy, Smith ^e   Stamm, Alan M ^e   Diasio, Robert B ^e   Kaufman, Leo ^e   Soong, Seng Jaw ^e   Blackwelder, William C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCYTOSINE;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BLOOD AND HEMOPOIETIC SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG EFFICACY; FUNGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER TOXICITY; LYMPHOCYTOTOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UREMIA;

EID: 0023181813     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198708063170602     Document Type: Article

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