Invasive fungal infection
From IDWiki
Organisms
- Aspergillus species
- Mucormycosis
- Cryptococcus?
- Penicillium
- Others...
Epidemiology
- Among patients on posaconazole for a hematologic malignancy or bone marrow transplant, there is an approximately 2% rate of breakthrough infection 1
References
- ^ Oliver A. Cornely, Johan Maertens, Drew J. Winston, John Perfect, Andrew J. Ullmann, Thomas J. Walsh, David Helfgott, Jerzy Holowiecki, Dick Stockelberg, Yeow-Tee Goh, Mario Petrini, Cathy Hardalo, Ramachandran Suresh, David Angulo-Gonzalez. Posaconazole vs. Fluconazole or Itraconazole Prophylaxis in Patients with Neutropenia. New England Journal of Medicine. 2007;356(4):348-359. doi:10.1056/nejmoa061094.
- ^ Ben De Pauw, Thomas J. Walsh, J. Peter Donnelly, David A. Stevens, John E. Edwards, Thierry Calandra, Peter G. Pappas, Johan Maertens, Olivier Lortholary, Carol A. Kauffman, David W. Denning, Thomas F. Patterson, Georg Maschmeyer, Jacques Bille, William E. Dismukes, Raoul Herbrecht, William W. Hope, Christopher C. Kibbler, Bart Jan Kullberg, Kieren A. Marr, Patricia Muñoz, Frank C. Odds, John R. Perfect, Angela Restrepo, Markus Ruhnke, Brahm H. Segal, Jack D. Sobel, Tania C. Sorrell, Claudio Viscoli, John R. Wingard, Theoklis Zaoutis, John E. Bennett. Revised Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Invasive Fungal Infections Cooperative Group and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Mycoses Study Group (EORTC/MSG) Consensus Group. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2008;46(12):1813-1821. doi:10.1086/588660.
