[Case Study] Keiji Okinaka “A disseminated filamentous fungal infection that broke through echinocandin antifungal treatment” (AMR Alliance Japan, September 6, 2021 )
date : 9/6/2021
Tags: AMR
AMR Alliance Japan (Secretariat: Health and Global Policy Institute (HGPI)) has begun a project to publish case studies showing actual cases in which antimicrobials were and were not used as examples of antimicrobial stewardship.
In this first case study, Dr. Keiji Okinaka (Director of Infection Control and Prevention Section, National Cancer Center Hospital East / Department of General Internal Medicine, National Cancer Center Hospital East /Division of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, National Cancer Center Hospital) reports on a case of “A disseminated filamentous fungal infection that broke through echinocandin antifungal treatment.”
For further information, please see the case study below.
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