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Antifungal activity of liriodenine on clinical strains of Cryptococcus neoforma...
Levorato-Vinche,Adriele Dandara; Melhem,Marcia de Souza Carvalho; Bonfietti,Lucas Xavier; de-la-Cruz-Chacón,Iván; Boaro,Carmen Sílvia FernandesAbstract Background: Cryptoccocal meningitis continues to present high incidence among AIDS patients. The treatment of choice is the synergistic combination of flucytosine (5-FC) with amphotericin B deoxycholate (AmBd) or its lipid formulations. However, 5-FC is unavailable in many countries and AmB demands hospitalization. The combination of AmB with the fungistatic fluconazole (FLC) or the use of high FLC dai...
Nosocomial candidiasis in Rio de Janeiro State: Distribution and fluconazole su...
Neufeld,Paulo Murillo; Melhem,Marcia de Souza Carvalho; Szeszs,Maria Walderez; Ribeiro,Marcos Dornelas; Amorim,Efigênia de Lourdes TeixeiraOne hundred and forty-one Candida species isolated from clinical specimens of hospitalized patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 2002 to 2007, were analized in order to evaluate the distribution and susceptibility of these species to fluconazole. Candida albicans was the most frequent species (45.4%), followed by C. parapsilosis sensu lato (28.4%), C. tropicalis (14.2%), C. guilliermondii (6.4%), C. famata...