Dual candidemia detected by nested polymerase chain reaction in two critically ill children

Medical Mycology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1116-1120

  Del Negro, G M B ^a   Delgado, A F ^b   Manuli, E R ^a   Yamamoto, L ^a   Okay, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Hospital das Clnicas   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Candida spp.; PCR; pediatric candidiasis; polyfungemia

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; FLUCONAZOLE; FUNGAL DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDEMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NESTED POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SKIN INFECTION; SMALL INTESTINE RESECTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; FUNGI;

EID: 78449264285     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13693786.2010.499375     Document Type: Article

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