Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management Candidiasis: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Clinical Infectious Diseases - Tập 48 Số 5 - Trang 503-535 - 2009
Peter G. Pappas1, Carol A. Kauffman2, David R. Andes3, Daniel K. Benjamin4, Thierry Calandra5, John E. Edwards6, Scott G. Filler6, John F. Fisher7, Bart Jan Kullberg8, Luis Ostrosky‐Zeichner9, Annette C. Reboli10, John Rex11, Thomas J. Walsh12, Jack D. Sobe13
1University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham
2 University of Michigan and Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Health Care System, Ann Arbor
3University of Wisconsin, Madison
4Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
5Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
6 Harbor-University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance
7Medical College of Georgia, Augusta
8Nijmegen University Centre for Infectious Diseases, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
9University of Texas at Houston, Houston
10Cooper Hospital, Camden, New Jersey
11 Astra Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Manchester, United Kingdom
12National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland;
13Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

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AbstractGuidelines for the management of patients with invasive candidiasis and mucosal candidiasis were prepared by an Expert Panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. These updated guidelines replace the previous guidelines published in the 15 January 2004 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and are intended for use by health care providers who care for patients who either have or are at risk of these infections. Since 2004, several new antifungal agents have become available, and several new studies have been published relating to the treatment of candidemia, other forms of invasive candidiasis, and mucosal disease, including oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis. There are also recent prospective data on the prevention of invasive candidiasis in high-risk neonates and adults and on the empiric treatment of suspected invasive candidiasis in adults. This new information is incorporated into this revised document.

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