Strategies in the Treatment of Systemic Fungal Infections
- 17 January 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 302 (3), 145-155
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198001173020304
Abstract
IN the past few years, there has been an increase in the number of systemic fungal infections seen in clinical practice. These infections have been of two types: those due to primary pathogens such as Coccidioides immitis, Histoplasma capsulatum, Sporothrix schenckii, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, and Blastomyces dermatitidis; and those due to secondary or opportunistic pathogens such as Cryptococcus neoformans, Torulopsis glabrata, and species of candida, mucor, and aspergillus. The former have been appreciated as important causes of infection for many years; the latter are being recognized as major causes of disease, particularly in patients with impaired defense mechanisms.In . . .This publication has 61 references indexed in Scilit:
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