Mycetoma Medical Therapy

Medical treatment of mycetoma depends on its fungal or bacterial etiology. Clinically, these entities share similar features that can confuse diagnosis, causing a lack of therapeutic response due to inappropriate treatment. This review evaluates the response to available antimicrobial agents in acti...

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Autores principales: Welsh, Oliverio, Al-Abdely, Hail Mater, Salinas-Carmona, Mario Cesar, Fahal, Ahmed Hassan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25330342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003218
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author Welsh, Oliverio
Al-Abdely, Hail Mater
Salinas-Carmona, Mario Cesar
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description Medical treatment of mycetoma depends on its fungal or bacterial etiology. Clinically, these entities share similar features that can confuse diagnosis, causing a lack of therapeutic response due to inappropriate treatment. This review evaluates the response to available antimicrobial agents in actinomycetoma and the current status of antifungal drugs for treatment of eumycetoma.
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spelling pubmed-41995512014-10-21 Mycetoma Medical Therapy Welsh, Oliverio Al-Abdely, Hail Mater Salinas-Carmona, Mario Cesar Fahal, Ahmed Hassan PLoS Negl Trop Dis Review Medical treatment of mycetoma depends on its fungal or bacterial etiology. Clinically, these entities share similar features that can confuse diagnosis, causing a lack of therapeutic response due to inappropriate treatment. This review evaluates the response to available antimicrobial agents in actinomycetoma and the current status of antifungal drugs for treatment of eumycetoma. Public Library of Science 2014-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4199551/ /pubmed/25330342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003218 Text en © 2014 Welsh et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199551/
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