Clinical practice guidelines for the management of candidiasis: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 503-535

  Pappas, Peter G ^a,n   Kauffman, Carol A ^b   Andes, David ^d   Benjamin Jr , Daniel K ^e   Calandra, Thierry F ^k   Edwards Jr , John E ^f   Filler, Scott G ^f   Fisher, John F ^g   Kullberg, Bart Jan ^l   Ostrosky Zeichner, Luis ^h   Reboli, Annette C ⁱ   Rex, John H ^m   Walsh, Thomas J ^j   Sobel, Jack D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^l RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^m ASTRAZENECA   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B DEOXYCHOLATE; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ANIDULAFUNGIN; BORIC ACID; BUTOCONAZOLE; CASPOFUNGIN; CLOTRIMAZOLE; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; MICAFUNGIN; MICONAZOLE; NYSTATIN; POSACONAZOLE; TERCONAZOLE; TIOCONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BIRTH DEFECT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA ENDOCARDITIS; CANDIDA ENDOPHTHALMITIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA MENINGITIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDEMIA; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NEUTROPENIA; CYSTITIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG PENETRATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ESOPHAGUS CANDIDIASIS; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GRAFT INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; MYOCARDITIS; NEONATAL CANDIDIASIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX CANDIDIASIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PERICARDITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATITIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VAGINA CANDIDIASIS; ARTICLE; CANDIDIASIS;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDIASIS; HUMANS;

EID: 60549098868     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596757     Document Type: Review

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