Successful medical therapy for deeply invasive facial infection due to Pythium insidiosum in a child

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1388-1393

  Shenep, Jerry L ^a   English, B Keith ^b   Kaufman, Leo ^b   Pearson, Ted A ^b   Thompson, Jerome W ^b   Kaufman, Robert A ^b   Frisch, Glenn ^b   Rinaldi, Michael G ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GRISEOFULVIN; ITRACONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE; VANCOMYCIN;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAGASTRIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MYCOSIS; OOMYCETES; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE FEEDING;

EID: 0032465031     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515042     Document Type: Article

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