Invasive cutaneous infection with Geotrichum candidum - Sequential treatment with amphotericin B and voriconazole

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 81-84

  Sfakianakis, Andreas ^a   Krasagakis, Konstantin ^a   Stefanidou, Maria ^a   Maraki, Sofia ^a   Koutsopoulos, Anastassios ^a   Kofteridis, Diamantis ^a   Samonis, George ^a   Tosca, Androniki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GLIBENCLAMIDE PLUS METFORMIN; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

AGED; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ANGIOGRAPHY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL PHALANX; DRUG DOSE SEQUENCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FINGER; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOTRICHOSIS; GEOTRICHUM CANDIDUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER TOXICITY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INFECTION; GEOTRICHUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

GALACTOMYCES GEOTRICHUM;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DIABETES MELLITUS; GEOTRICHOSIS; GEOTRICHUM; HUMANS; MALE; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 34249677480     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780600939948     Document Type: Article

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