Molecular typing for investigating an outbreak of Candida krusei

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 26, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 117-123

  Noskin, Gary A ^a,b   Lee, Jenny ^a   Hacek, Donna M ^b   Postelnick, Michael ^a   Reisberg, Boris E ^a   Stosor, Valentina ^a   Weitzman, Sigmund A ^a   Peterson, Lance R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, FUNGAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0030295206     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(96)00204-0     Document Type: Article

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