Congenital candidiasis caused by different candida species in a dizygotic pregnancy [1]

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 958-959

  Krallis, Nikolaos ^a   Tzioras, Spyridon ^a   Giapros, Vasileios ^a   Leveidiotou, Stamatina ^a   Paschopoulos, Minas ^a   Stefanou, Dimitrios ^a   Andronikou, Styliani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; CORTICOSTEROID; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; CONGENITAL INFECTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LETTER; MALE; NEWBORN; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC;

EID: 33749445933     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.inf.0000235683.57619.05     Document Type: Letter

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