Resolution of fungemia due to Fusarium species in a patient with acute leukemia treated with caspofungin [4]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1349-1350

  Apostolidis, John ^a,b   Bouzani, Maria ^a   Platsouka, Evangelia ^a   Belasiotou, Helen ^a   Stamouli, Maria ^a   Harhalakis, Nikolaos ^a   Boutati, Eleni I ^a   Paniara, Olga ^a   Nikiforakis, Emmanuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; CANDIDAS; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CYTARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IDARUBICIN; IMIPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNGEMIA; FUSARIUM; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; FUNGEMIA; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MYCOSES; PEPTIDES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC;

EID: 0037508494     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374895     Document Type: Letter

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