Epidemiology of invasive mycoses in North America

MA Pfaller, DJ Diekema - Critical reviews in microbiology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The incidence of invasive mycoses is increasing, especially among patients who are
immunocompromised or hospitalized with serious underlying diseases. Such infections may …

Glucocorticoids and invasive fungal infections

MS Lionakis, DP Kontoyiannis - The Lancet, 2003 - thelancet.com
Since the 1990s, opportunistic fungal infections have emerged as a substantial cause of
morbidity and mortality in profoundly immunocompromised patients. Hypercortisolaemic …

Treatment of aspergillosis: clinical practice guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

TJ Walsh, EJ Anaissie, DW Denning, R Herbrecht… - Clinical infectious …, 2008 - JSTOR
Aspergillus species have emerged as an important cause of life-threatening infections in
immunocompromised patients. This expanding population is composed of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated pneumonia, 2003

OC Tablan, LJ Anderson, R Besser, C Bridges… - MMWR, 2004 - cdc.gov
This report updates, expands, and replaces the previously published CDC" Guideline for
Prevention of Nosocomial Pneumonia". The new guidelines are designed to reduce the …

Posaconazole or fluconazole for prophylaxis in severe graft-versus-host disease

AJ Ullmann, JH Lipton, DH Vesole… - … England Journal of …, 2007 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Invasive fungal infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality after
allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. Methods In an international …

Epidemiology and outcome of invasive fungal infection in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: analysis of Multicenter Prospective Antifungal Therapy …

D Neofytos, D Horn, E Anaissie… - Clinical Infectious …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background. With use of data from the Prospective Antifungal Therapy (PATH) Alliance
registry, we performed this multicenter, prospective, observational study to assess the …

Invasive aspergillosis in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients: changes in epidemiology and risk factors

KA Marr, RA Carter, M Boeckh… - Blood, The Journal of …, 2002 - ashpublications.org
The incidence of postengraftment invasive aspergillosis (IA) in hematopoietic stem cell
transplant (HSCT) recipients increased during the 1990s. We determined risks for IA and …

Aspergillus Infections in Transplant Recipients

N Singh, DL Paterson - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2005 - journals.asm.org
Aspergillus infections are occurring with an increasing frequency in transplant recipients.
Notable changes in the epidemiologic characteristics of this infection have occurred; these …

Nosocomial fungal infections: epidemiology, infection control, and prevention

G Suleyman, GJ Alangaden - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2016 - id.theclinics.com
There has been an overall increase in fungal healthcare–associated infections (HAIs) that is
likely a consequence of the advances in medical and surgical therapies. The wider use of …

Efficacy of transfusion with granulocytes from G-CSF/dexamethasone–treated donors in neutropenic patients with infection

TH Price, M Boeckh, RW Harrison… - Blood, The Journal …, 2015 - ashpublications.org
High-dose granulocyte transfusion therapy has been available for 20 years, yet its clinical
efficacy has never been conclusively demonstrated. We report here the results of RING …