Treatment of lymphocutaneous and visceral sporotrichosis with fluconazole

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 46-50

  Kauffman, Carol A ^a   Pappas, Peter G ^b   McKinsey, David S ^b   Greenfield, Ronald A ^b   Perfect, John R ^b   Cloud, Gretchen A ^b   Thomas, Carolynn J ^b   Dismukes, William E ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; WARFARIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRY SKIN; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE INJURY; MALE; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INFECTION; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 0030031956     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.1.46     Document Type: Article

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