Prevalence & susceptibility to fluconazole of Candida species causing vulvovaginitis

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 216-219

  Mohanty, Srujana ^a   Xess, Immaculata ^a   Hasan, Fahmi ^a   Kapil, Arti ^a   Mittal, Suneeta ^a   Tolosa, Jorge E ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antifungal susceptibility; Candida; Candida vaginitis; Fluconazole; Non albicans species

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DILUTION; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VAGINAL BURNING SENSATION; VAGINAL PRURITUS; YEAST;

CANDIDA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; INDIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 37649022985     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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