Mixed Candida glabrata and Candida albicans disseminated candidiasis in a heroin addict

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 598-600

  Bougnoux, M E ^a   Dupont, C ^a   Turner, L ^a   Rouveix, E ^a   Dorra, M ^a   Nicolas Chanoine, M H ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SHORT SURVEY;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGEMIA; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MOUTH; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030824417     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02447924     Document Type: Short Survey

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