Empirical antifungal therapy with an echinocandin in critically-ill patients: prospective evaluation of a pragmatic Candida score-based strategy in one medical ICU

BACKGROUND: Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a life-threatening ICU-acquired infection. A strong correlation between time to antifungal therapy (AFT) administration and outcome has been established. Empirical therapy benefit should be balanced with the risk of echinocandin overuse. We assessed therefore...

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Autores principales: Bruyère, Rémi, Quenot, Jean-Pierre, Prin, Sébastien, Dalle, Frédéric, Vigneron, Clara, Aho, Serge, Leon, Cristobal, Charles, Pierre-Emmanuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4227296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25015848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-385

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4227296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25015848
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-385

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