Fungal outbreak update from IDWeek

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 621-624

  Slama, Thomas ^a   Kauffman, Carol A ^b   Patterson, Thomas F ^c   Neill, Marguerite A ^a,d  

^a Infectious Diseases Society of America Emerging Infections Network   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^d MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CLADOSPORIUM; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; EPIDEMIC; EXSEROHILUM ROSTRATUM; FUNGAL MENINGITIS; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNGAL INFECTIONS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG COMPOUNDING; DRUG CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873636716     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis925     Document Type: Article

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