Evidence for a pseudo-outbreak of Candida guilliermondii fungemia in a university hospital in Brazil

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 942-947

  Medeiros, Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo ^a   Lott, Timothy J ^b   Colombo, Arnaldo Lopes ^a   Godoy, Patrício ^a   Coutinho, Ana Paula ^a   Braga, Monica Santos ^a   Nucci, Marcio ^c   Brandt, Mary E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; FUNGAL DNA; POVIDONE IODINE; SOAP;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDA GUILLIERMONDII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; EPIDEMIC; FUNGEMIA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MYCOSIS; NAIL INFECTION; NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN INFECTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BLOOD; BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE;

CANDIDA; PICHIA GUILLIERMONDII;

EID: 33947277512     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01878-06     Document Type: Article

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