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The role of primary antifungal prophylaxis in patients with haematological malignancies.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013 Dec 21;
Authors: Pagano L, Caira M
Abstract
Invasive fungal Infections (IFIs) represent important complications in patients with haematological malignancies. Chemoprevention of IFIs may play an important role in this setting, but in the past decades the majority of antifungal drugs utilized demonstrated poor efficacy, particularly in the prevention of invasive aspergillosis. The new triazoles are a very useful antifungal drugs, more suitable for prophylaxis of IFIs than amphotericin B and echinocandins. In this review the main clinical data about antifungal prophylaxis with fluconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole and posaconazole are analyzed. At present posaconazole was appears to be the most efficacious azole in antifungal prophylaxis, particularly in patients with acute myeloid leukaemia. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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