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Posaconazole prophylaxis in experimental systemic zygomycosis.
Three isolates of zygomycetes belonging to two different genera (Rhizopus oryzae and Absidia corymbifera) were used to produce a systemic infection in neutropenic mice. On days -2 and -1 and at 2 h prior to infection, the mice received either posaconazole (POS) at doses ranging from 20 to 80 mg/kg of body weight/day or amphotericin B (AMB) at 1 mg/kg/day. Antifungal drug efficacy was assessed b...
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An antigen analysis with filtrate and homogenate precipitinogens of single isolates of the zygomycetes Absidia corymbifera, Mucor pusillus, Rhizopus arrhizus, and Rhizopus oryzae demonstrated the presence of common antigens among the three genera as well as antigens which permit their differentiation. Selected homogenate antigens were valuable in developing a diagnostic immunodiffusion (ID) tes...
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cines and the template described in An-derson and Hanson [2]. Blower falsely claims (e.g., see [3], p. 118) that her 1993 and 1994 articles included , to quote, " the first transmission model of HIV vaccines to assess the potential epidemic-level impact of imperfect vaccines. " This is incorrect—the 1991 Nature article by Anderson et al. was the first. To the Editor—Zygomycosis is an inva-sive ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.62.733.985