Controversies about the management of invasive fungal infections in very low birth weight infants

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 81, Issue 1 SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Moreira, Maria Elisabeth Lopes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida; Infection; Preterm infants; Very low birth weight infants

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; MICAFUNGIN; MICONAZOLE; NYSTATIN; TRIAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; BONE MARROW TOXICITY; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BINDING; DRUG COST; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TUBULE ACIDOSIS; LIVER TOXICITY; MEDLINE; MENINGITIS; MYCOSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN;

CANDIDIASIS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MYCOSES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 27744605592     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: 00217557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/jped.1300     Document Type: Review

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