Candida osteomyelitis: Analysis of 207 pediatric and adult cases (1970-2011)

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1338-1351

  Gamaletsou, Maria N ^a,b,c   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^d   Sipsas, Nikolaos V ^b,c   Moriyama, Brad ^e   Alexander, Elizabeth ^a   Roilides, Emmanuel ^c,f   Brause, Barry ^a,c   Walsh, Thomas J ^a,c  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCYTOSINE; HEMOGLOBIN; POLYENE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE INFECTION; BONE PROSTHESIS; CANDIDA; CANDIDA OSTEOMYELITIS; CANDIDEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMUR; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMERUS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OSTEOMYELITIS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RIB; SPONDYLITIS; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BONE AND BONES; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; JOINTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868007575     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis660     Document Type: Article

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