The molecular epidemiology of serial Candida tropicalis isolates from ICU patients as revealed by multilocus sequence typing and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 912-920

  Chen, Kuo Wei ^a   Chen, Yee Chun ^b,c   Lin, Yu Hsin ^a   Chou, Hsiao Hui ^a   Li, Shu Ying ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Candida tropicalis; Flucytosine resistance; MLST; Molecular typing; PFGE; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECTUM; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPUTUM CULTURE; THROAT CULTURE; URINE CULTURE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIPLOIDY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; FLUCYTOSINE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TAIWAN;

CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 67651085199     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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