Prevalence rates and antifungal susceptibility profiles of the Candida parapsilosis species complex: Results from a nationwide surveillance of candidaemia in Brazil

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 885-887

  Goncalves S S ^a   Amorim, C S ^a   Nucci, M ^b   Padovan, A C B ^c   Briones, M R S ^c   Melo, A S A ^a   Colombo, A L ^a  

^a Laboratório Especial de Micologia   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida metapsilosis; Candida orthopsilosis; Candida spp. susceptibility; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; ITRACONAZOLE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BRAZIL; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION RATE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA METAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA ORTHOPSILOSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS;

EID: 77950814460     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03020.x     Document Type: Article

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