Frequency of intravascular catheter colonization by Malassezia spp. in adult patients

Mycoses

Volumn 47, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 491-494

  Curvale Fauchet, Nathalie ^a   Botterel, Françoise ^a   Legrand, Patrick ^a   Guillot, Jacques ^b   Bretagne, Stéphane ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

Author keywords

Intravascular catheters; Malassezia; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SURGICAL PATIENT; YEAST;

ADULT; BACTERIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

FUNGI; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS;

EID: 12344322288     PISSN: 09337407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0507.2004.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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