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Voriconazole Provides Effective Prophylaxis for Invasive Fungal Infection in Patients Receiving Glucocorticoid Therapy for Graft-Versus-Host Disease

Patients on systemic glucocorticoids for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) after hematopoietic cell transplant are susceptible to invasive fungal infections (IFI), which greatly contribute to morbidity and mortality. We evaluated the efficacy of prophylactic treatment options (voriconazole versus flu...

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Autores principales: Gergis, Usama, Markey, Kelly, Greene, John, Kharfan-Dabaja, Mohamed, Field, Teresa, Wetzstein, Gene, Schell, Michael J., Huang, Yifan, Anasetti, Claudio, Perkins, Janelle
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19684623
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2009.210