State-of-the-art treatment of coccidioidomycosis: Skin and soft-tissue infections

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1111, Issue , 2007, Pages 411-421

  Blair, Janis E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Coccidioidomycosis; Dissemination; Infection; Skin infection; Soft tissue; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; CASPOFUNGIN; CYCLODEXTRIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FLUCONAZOLE; GENACONAZOLE; HEPARIN; IMIDAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; POSACONAZOLE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; VORICONAZOLE;

BONE INFECTION; CHILL; COCCIDIA; COCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; ERYTHEMA NODOSUM; FEVER; HEADACHE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPH NODE; MICROBIOLOGY; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; ORGAN; RASH; RIGOR; SEROLOGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VOMITING;

COCCIDIOIDES; FUNGI;

EID: 35348870375     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1406.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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