Utility of Serial β-d-Glucan Levels in Patients with High Risk for Invasive Candidiasis: A Potential Tool for Antifungal Stewardship

BACKGROUND: Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a severe infection in which diagnosis is challenging and often made late in the course of infection. Patients with delayed initiation of antifungals have high mortality risk; physicians tend to start empiric therapy at earliest clinical suspicion of IC. Exces...

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Autores principales: Chua, Alvin Qijia, Tang, Sarah Si Lin, Ng, Shin Yi, Lee, Winnie, Cheong, Eleanor Jing Yi, Loo, Liwen, Zhou, Yvonne Peijun, Chua, Nathalie Grace Sy, Lim, Cheryl Li Ling, Chlebicki, Maciej Piotr, Tan, Ban Hock, Kwa, Andrea L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631424/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1603

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