Distribution of the etiological agents of fungemia in the San Martin Hospital of La Plata;Agentes etiológicos de fungemia en el Hospital San Martín de La Plata

Revista Argentina de Microbiologia

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-109

  Mestroni, S C ^a,b   Verna, J A ^a   Smolkin, A ^a   Bava, A J ^b  

^a Hospital Interzonal de Agudos San Martin de la Plata   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Blood cultures; Candida; Candidemia; Fungemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GUILLIERMONDII; CANDIDA KEFYR; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS CULTURE; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MYCOSIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; YEAST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALASSEZIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0042167335     PISSN: 03257541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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