Invasive candidiasis

Nature Reviews Disease Primers

Volumn 4, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Pappas, Peter G ^a   Lionakis, Michail S ^b   Arendrup, Maiken Cavling ^c,d,e   Ostrosky Zeichner, Luis ^f   Kullberg, Bart Jan ^g  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINOCANDIN; FUNGUS ANTIGEN; MANNAN; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DISEASE BURDEN; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENETICS; INFECTION PREVENTION; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MONONUCLEAR PHAGOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT DURATION; BLOOD CULTURE; DRUG EFFECT; MASS SCREENING; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS, INVASIVE; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FLUCONAZOLE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 85046906978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2056676X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrdp.2018.26     Document Type: Article

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