Candida isolation in patients hospitalized on a surgical ward: Significance and mortality-related factors

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1822-1829

  Marchena Gomez, J ^a,b   Saez Guzman, T ^a   Hemmersbach Miller, M ^a   Conde Martel, A ^a   Morales Leon, V ^a   Bordes Benitez, A ^a   Acosta Merida, M A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GRAN CANARIA DR NEGRÍN   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDEMIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NEOPLASM; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL WARD; TRANSFUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 69049089706     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-009-0120-5     Document Type: Article

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