Breakthrough fungemia caused by azole-resistant Candida albicans in neutropenic patients with acute leukemia [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1496-1497

  Myoken, Yoshinari ^a,c   Kyo, Tai Ichi ^a   Kohara, Tadahiro ^a   Fujihara, Megumu ^a   Sugata, Tatsumi ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^b  

^a ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hiroshima Red Cross Atom Bomb S ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHEMOPREVENTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA;

EID: 0037792048     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/374894     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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3. NCCLS. Reference method for broth dilution antifungal susceptibility testing of yeasts. Approved standard M27-A. Wayne, PA: 1997.