The efficacy of itraconazole against systemic fungal infections in neutropenic patients: A randomised comparative study with amphotericin B

Journal of Infection

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 45-52

  van't Wout, J W ^a   Novakova, I ^b   Verhagen, C A H ^b   Fibbe, W E ^a   de Pauw, B E ^b   van der Meer, J W M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, COMBINED; ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FLUCYTOSINE; HUMAN; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026100227     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0163-4453(91)90954-Q     Document Type: Article

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