Eight-year surveillance of non-albicans Candida spp. in an oncology department prior to and after fluconazole had been introduced into antifungal prophylaxis

Microbial Drug Resistance

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-287

  Kunova, A ^a   Trupl, J ^a   Demitrovicova, A ^b,e   Jesenska, Z ^c   Grausova, S ^b   Grey, E ^b   Pichna, P ^d   Kralovicova, K ^b,e   Sorkovska, D ^a,e   Krupova, I ^b,d   Spanik, S ^a,e   Studena, M ^a   Koren, P ^b,f   Krcmery Jr , V ^b,e  

^a CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c INST OF PREV AND CLINICAL MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

^d Faculty of Medicine of Comenius University and University Hospital Bratislava   (Slovakia)

^e ST ELIZABETH CANCER INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^f SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA KRUSEI; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; TORULOPSIS GLABRATA;

ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; ISSATCHENKIA ORIENTALIS; TORULOPSIS;

EID: 0030812319     PISSN: 10766294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/mdr.1997.3.283     Document Type: Article

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