Neonatal Candida meningitis

Seminars in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 115-122

  Moylett, Edina H ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; APGAR SCORE; APNEA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; BRADYCARDIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEEDING DISORDER; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTUBATION; LABORATORY TEST; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SIDE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037823093     PISSN: 10451870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/spid.2003.127128     Document Type: Article

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