Clinical experience of urine D-arabinitol/L-arabinitol ratio in the early diagnosis of invasive candidiasis in paediatric high risk populations

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 146-151

  Sigmundsdottir, Gudrun ^a,c   Larsson, Lennart ^b   Wiebe, Thomas ^b   Björklund, Lars ^b   Christensson, Bertil ^c  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b Division of Medical Microbiology ^*  (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ARABINITOL; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; NYSTATIN;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; RISK FACTORS; SUGAR ALCOHOLS;

EID: 33847112098     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540600951267     Document Type: Article

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