Measurement of serum D-arabinitol/creatinine ratios for initial diagnosis and for predicting outcome in an unselected, population-based sample of patients with Candida fungemia

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3894-3899

  Yeo, Siew Fah ^a,b   Huie, Sharon ^b   Sofair, Andre N ^b   Campbell, Sheldon ^a,b   Durante, Amanda ^b   Wong, Brian ^a,b,c  

^a VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ARABINITOL; CREATININE; FLUCONAZOLE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CREATININE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 33750956772     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01045-06     Document Type: Article

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