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ArticleCurrent medical mycology2015

Lamisil, a potent alternative antifungal drug for otomycosis.

A Zarei Mahmoudabadi, Z Seifi, M Gharaghani

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Article in Current medical mycology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Outer Ear Infections in Iran: A Review.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2019
    Review
  4. Article
  5. Otomycosis in iran: a review.Mycopathologia · 2015
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

A Zarei MahmoudabadiDepartment of Medical Mycology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Z SeifiDepartment of Medical Mycology and Parasitology, School of Medicine, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
M GharaghaniDepartment of Medical Mycology, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences · IRMazandaran University of Medical Sciences · IR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

background and purposeOtomycosis is an acute, subacute or chronic fungal infection of the pinna, the external auditory meatus and the ear canal caused mainly by several species of saprophytic fungi. Lamisil (Terbinafine) is an allylamine antifungal agent, that is used both in the topical and oral administration for the treatment of dermatophytosis, cutaneous candidiasis, and the pityriasis versicolor. We investigated the MATERIALS AND

methodsFifteen clinically obtained isolates from otomycosis (

resultsOut of 23 isolates of

conclusionThis is a new approach for the possible use of Lamisil for the treatment of otomycosis

Indexed as

Aspergillus speciesCandida speciesLamisilOtomycosis

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PMID28680976
PMCPMC5490317
OpenAlexW2183870679

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