In-vivo Candida biofilms in scanning electron microscopy

Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 690-696

  Paulitsch, Astrid Helga ^a   Willinger, Birgit ^b   Zsalatz, Benedikt ^b   Stabentheiner, Edith ^c   Marth, Egon ^a   Buzina, Walter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biofilms; Candida; Catheters; Epidemiology; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

AGAR; GOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA KRUSEI; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDA UTILIS; CATHETER; CHILD; FEMALE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRICHOSPORON ASAHII; YEAST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS;

EID: 71049189306     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693780802635237     Document Type: Article

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