Resolution of disseminated fusariosis in a child with acute leukemia treated with combined antifungal therapy: A case report

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vagace, José Manuel ^a   Sanz Rodriguez, Cesar ^b   Casado, Maria Soledad ^a   Alonso, Nieves ^a   Garcia Dominguez, Manuel ^a   Garcia de la Llana, Francisco ^a   Zarallo, Luis ^a   Fajardo, Miguel ^a   Bajo, Roberto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTA CRISTINA   (Spain)

^b Medical affairs Merck sharp and Dohme ltd   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ASPARAGINASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CEFEPIME; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DAUNORUBICIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MERCAPTOPURINE; METHOTREXATE; POSACONAZOLE; PREDNISONE; TEICOPLANIN; VINCRISTINE; VORICONAZOLE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CYCLOPEPTIDE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISSEMINATED FUSARIOSIS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUSARIUM; GRANULOCYTOPENIA; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA REMISSION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CHILD; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MYCOSES; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PYRIMIDINES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 34249869524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-7-40     Document Type: Article

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