Determination of posaconazole levels in toenails of adults with onychomycosis following oral treatment with four regimens of posaconazole for 12 or 24 weeks

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4424-4426

  Krishna, Gopal ^a   Ma, Lei ^a   Martinho, Monika ^a   Prasad, Pratapa ^a,b   Wahl, Janice ^a   Tavakkol, Amir ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; POSACONAZOLE; TERBINAFINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG ACCUMULATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NAIL BED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STEADY STATE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TOENAIL ONYCHOMYCOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 80051805128     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01302-10     Document Type: Article

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