Published rather than proposed definitions for invasive fungal infection must be applied to allow standardization in clinical trials [8]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1648-1649

  McLintock, Lorna A ^a   Holyoake, Tessa L ^a   Jones, Brian L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS GREATER GLASGOW AND CLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INVASIVE FUNGAL INFECTION; LETTER; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SPECIES INVASION; STANDARD;

CLINICAL TRIALS; MYCOSES; PUBLISHING;

EID: 2942614965     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421029     Document Type: Letter

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