Candiduria in haematologic malignancy patients without a urinary catheter: Nothing more than a frailty marker?

Mycoses

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-314

  Georgiadou, Sarah P ^a   Tarrand, Jeffrey ^a   Sipsas, Nikolaos V ^b   Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Candidiasis; Candiduria; Haematologic; Urinary catheter

Indexed keywords

ANIDULAFUNGIN; CASPOFUNGIN; ECHINOCANDIN; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; POSACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDURIA; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MALE; MORTALITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; PYURIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINALYSIS; URINARY CATHETER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS, INVASIVE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; PYURIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; URINARY CATHETERS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA;

EID: 84876309702     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: 14390507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/myc.12024     Document Type: Article

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