Candida osteomyelitis and diskitis after spinal surgery: An outbreak that implicates artificial nail use

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 352-357

  Parry, M F ^a   Grant, B ^a   Yukna, M ^a   Adler Klein, D ^a   McLeod, G X ^a   Taddonio, R ^a   Rosenstein, C ^a  

^a STAMFORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISKITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; FUNGUS CULTURE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SPINE SURGERY;

ADULT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISCITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; DISKECTOMY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035115938     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/318487     Document Type: Article

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