Global access to antifungal therapy and its variable cost
Global access to antifungal therapy and its variable cost
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DOI:
10.1093/jac/dkw325
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发表时间:
2016-12-01
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Denning, David W.
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作者:
Kneale, Matthew;Bartholomew, Jennifer S.;Denning, David W.
Background: Antifungal therapy saves lives, if given early in life-threatening invasive infection, and also greatly reduces morbidity in hundreds of millions of patients worldwide.Objectives: We have partially mapped by country systemic generic antifungal drug registration, availability and daily cost for intravenous deoxycholate amphotericin B (50 mg), flucytosine (5 g), oral fluconazole (750-800 mg) and oral itraconazole (400 mg).Methods: Multiple publically available resources and local country contacts provided data for 159 countries with populations >1 million.Results: Amphotericin B is not licensed in and unavailable in 22 of 155 (14.2%) and 42 of 155 (27.1%) countries, respectively, representing an unserved population of 481 million. The daily price of deoxycholate amphotericin B varied from