Learning from our failures: The antifungal treatment conundrum

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1434-1435

  Wingard, John R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ASPERGILLUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 42549129310     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587102     Document Type: Note

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