Clinical features and treatment of Malassezia folliculitis with fluconazole in orthotopic heart transplant recipients

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 215-219

  Rhie, Sangho ^a   Turcios, Rosa ^a   Buckley, Helen ^a   Suh, Byungse ^a  

^a Temple University Health Sciences Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUCONAZOLE; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; PREDNISOLONE; SELENIUM SULFIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DERMATOMYCOSES; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; FOLLICULITIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0033962118     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-2498(99)00123-0     Document Type: Article

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