Miconazole in Systemic Candidiasis

Neonatal systemic candidiasis treated with miconazole.

Butoconazole and miconazole in treating vaginal candidiasis.

In a single blind trial, a three day course of butoconazole nitrate cream was compared with a seven day course of miconazole nitrate cream, both applied intravaginally, in treating vaginal candidiasis. They were equally effective. The cure rate for patients treated with butoconazole was 82.8% at the first follow up (a mean of 18.4 days from the beginning of the treatment) and 76.7% at second fo...

Neonatal systemic candidiasis: a failure to respond to intravenous miconazole in two neonates.

a superimposed nutritional deficiency which further impairs their resistance, especially to diarrhoeal disease. This suggests that one important cause of postneonatal mortality in Latin America is low birthweight, possibly as a result of poor maternal health and nutritional status. In other parts of the world-for example in Africa and the Indian subcontinent-the prevalence of low birthweight is...

Neonatal systemic candidiasis : a failure to respond to intravenous miconazole in two neonates

myocardial lesions.7 No nodules in the central nervous system have been described. Cases without visceral nodules (the multiple group) demonstrate a wide range of involvement from single bony or subcutaneous nodules to widespread involvement of skin, subcutaneous tissue, muscle, and bone. As ultimate regression is the rule survival is assured. The difficulty in making a pathological diagnosis l...

Systemic Candidiasis in Infancy

Isacson, M., Noah, Z., Faber, J., Herishano, Y., and Gottfried, L. (1972). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 47, 954. Use of 5-fluorocytosine in systemic candidiasis in infancy. Three cases of systemic candidiasis were successfully treated with 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), an antifungal agent. The fungaemia developed during continuous intravenous alimentation for intestinal malabsorption. The diagn...