Candidaemia and risk of intraocular infection: A Danish hospital-based cohort study

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-246

  Karmisholt, Marianne Kirkegaard ^a   Hjort, Ulla ^a   Knudsen, Lars Loumann ^a   Schønheyder, Henrik Carl ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; PROGNOSIS; RETINITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT DURATION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINITIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 39349109426     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540701642120     Document Type: Article

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