Choice of Antifungal Agent for Prophylaxis
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Over the years, the different scientific societies have established a series of recommendations on antifungal prophylaxis based on prospective studies performed with different drugs1-6. Table 1 summarises these recommendations for the three situations in which fungal infection is most frequent: acute leukaemias, myelodysplastic syndromes and autologous and allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. As can be seen, each one of them includes most of the drugs currently marketed.
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