Safety and clinical response of intraventricular caspofungin for Scedosporium apiospermum complex central nervous system infection

We present a 71-year old woman treated with 14 days of 5 mg intraventricular caspofungin for Scedosporium apiospermum complex meningoencephalitis diagnosed after spinal fusion and instrumentation. Cerebrospinal fluid studies improved during therapy and intraventricular administration was well tolera...

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Autores principales: Williams, John R., Tenforde, Mark W., Chan, Jeannie D., Ko, Andrew, Graham, Susan M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.07.003

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021765/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2016.07.003

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