Improved diagnosis of fungal infections no longer requires preventive therapy.

2003 DEC 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improved diagnosis of fungal infections no longer requires preventive therapy.

According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Hematology, "invasive fungal infections are a primary cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hematological malignancies. Establishing a definite diagnosis of invasive fungal infection in febrile neutropenic patients is particularly challenging and time-consuming, but a delay of antifungal treatment leads to higher mortality.

This situation has lead to the strategy of initiation of empirical antifungal therapy prior to the detection of fungi. Meanwhile, improvements …