Urine D-arabinitol/L-arabinitol ratio in diagnosing Candida infection in patients with haematological malignancy and HIV infection

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 39-42

  Eisen, Damon P ^a   Bartley, Paul B ^a   Hope, William ^a   Sigmundsdottir, Gudrun ^b   Pehrson, Christina ^b   Larsson, Lennart ^b   Christensson, Bertil ^c  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ARABINITOL; FLUCONAZOLE;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; THRUSH; URINE LEVEL;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

EID: 0036164573     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(01)00310-8     Document Type: Article

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