Successful treatment of azole-resistant Candida spondylodiscitis with high-dose caspofungin monotherapy

Rheumatology International

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2957-2958

  Theodoros, Kelesidis ^a   Sotirios, Tsiodras ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CASPOFUNGIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CREATININE; PYRROLE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; BACKACHE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA SPONDYLODISCITIS; CASE REPORT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE DURATION; ESOPHAGITIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LETTER; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; AZOLES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISCITIS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; ECHINOCANDINS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866434325     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-011-2121-6     Document Type: Letter

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