Candidaemia in cancer patients and in children in a neonatal intensive care unit

Folia Microbiologica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 161-164

  Trubenova D ^a   Viragova S ^b   Pilipcinec E ^c   Danko, J ^c   Svicky E ^c   Tkacikova L' ^c  

^a Private Stomatology Ambulance   (Slovakia)

^b Hospital aca   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; FUNGEMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SLOVAKIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0035225167     PISSN: 00155632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02873597     Document Type: Article

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