Risk factors associated with colonization by Candida spp in neonates hospitalized in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Brazil;Fatores de risco associados à colonização por Candida spp em neonatos internados em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal brasileira

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-435

  Borges, Raniery Martins ^a   Soares, Leandro Rafael ^a   De Brito, Cristiane Silveira ^a   De Brito, Denise Von Dolinger ^a   Abdallah, Vânia Olivetti Steffen ^a   Filho, Paulo Pinto Gontijo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida spp.; Colonization; Critical neonates; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDEMIA; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEPSIS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 70349902840     PISSN: 00378682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0037-86822009000400014     Document Type: Article

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