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Successful treatment of disseminated coccidioidomycosis with amphotericin B lipid complex
A P Koehler1, A F Cheng, K C Chu
1Department of Microbiology, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories.
The Journal of Infection
|November 20, 1998
Abstract:
Coccidioidomycosis is endemic in regions of the Americas, but this infection may be encountered in travellers who return from an endemic region. A case is reported of a disseminated infection in a Hong Kong Chinese man, who was successfully treated with amphotericin B lipid complex (ABLC) after intolerance and toxicity precluded the use of other antifungal agents. Lipid-based formulations of amphotericin B merit further evaluation in the treatment of coccidioidomycosis and other systemic mycoses.