Fatal Breakthrough Mucormycosis in an Acute Myelogenous Leukemia Patient while on Posaconazole Prophylaxis

Posaconazole is a new oral triazole with broad-spectrum antifungal activity. Posaconazole has also shown a significant advantage of preventing invasive fungal infection compared to fluconazole or itraconazole in patients with prolonged neutropenia. Indeed, posaconazole has been commonly used for ant...

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Autores principales: Kang, Seung Hun, Kim, Hyun Seon, Bae, Myoung Nam, Kim, Jihye, Yoo, Ji Yeon, Lee, Kwan Yong, Lee, Dong-Gun, Kim, Hee-Je
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases and Korean Society for Chemotherapy 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844263
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.1.49

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4384455/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25844263
http://dx.doi.org/10.3947/ic.2015.47.1.49

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