Fluconazole versus Candida albicans: A complex relationship

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2938-2942

  Graybill, John R ^a,b   Montalbo, Eleanor ^b   Kirkpatrick, William R ^a   Luther, Michael F ^b   Revankar, Sanjay G ^a   Patterson, Thomas F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; FLUCONAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031724985     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aac.42.11.2938     Document Type: Article

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