Invasive candidosis in postsurgical patients - A valid clinical entity;Die invasive Candidainfektion chirurgischer Patienten: Eine valide klinische Entität

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 744-749

  Geldner, G ^a   Ruhnke, M ^b   Lepper, P ^a   Penk, A ^c   Wiedeck, H ^a   Essig, A ^a   Trautmann, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal drugs; Candida albicans; Peritonitis Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SERODIAGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0034511834     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-8934     Document Type: Article

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