PCR monitoring of response to liposomal amphotericin B treatment of systemic candidiasis in neutropenic mice

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-28

  Van Deventer, A J M ^a   Goessens, W H F ^a,b   Van Belkum, A ^a   Van Etten, E W M ^a   Van Vliet, H J A ^a   Verbrugh, H A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

AMPHOTERICIN B; LIPOSOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; LIPOSOMES; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029655886     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.1.25-28.1996     Document Type: Article

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