Evaluation of the new API Candida system for identification of the most clinically important yeast species

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 217-221

  Bernal, Samuel ^a   Mazuelos, Estrella Martín ^a   Chávez, Mónica ^a   Coronilla, Julián ^a   Valverde, Anastasio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA GUILLIERMONDII; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOTORULA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TECHNIQUE; TRICHOSPORON; YEAST;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MYCOLOGY; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032433116     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(98)00119-9     Document Type: Article

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