Candidemia surveillance in Brazil: Evidence for a geographical boundary defining an area exhibiting an abatement of infections by Candida albicans group 2 strains

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3062-3067

  Da Matta, Daniel A ^a   Melo, Analy S ^a   Colombo, Arnaldo L ^a   Frade, Joao P ^b   Nucci, Marcio ^a   Lott, Timothy J ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDEMIA; DIPLOIDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEXICO; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRULENCE;

BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGEMIA; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 77956861900     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00262-10     Document Type: Article

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