Pentamidine is active in a neutropenic murine model of acute invasive pulmonary fusariosis

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 294-297

  Lionakis, Michail S ^a,b   Chamilos, Georgios ^a   Lewis, Russell E ^a,c   Wiederhold, Nathan P ^c   Raad, Issam I ^a   Samonis, George ^b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PENTAMIDINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LUNG FUSARIOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; MOUSE; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUSARIUM; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PENTAMIDINE;

EID: 29944447034     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.50.1.294-297.2006     Document Type: Article

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