Revisiting the source of candidemia: Skin or gut?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1959-1967

  Nucci, Marcio ^a   Anaissie, Elias ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NEUTROPENIA; NEWBORN INFECTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN CULTURE;

CANDIDIASIS, CUTANEOUS; CANDIDIASIS, ORAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; META-ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035893122     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/323759     Document Type: Article

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