Candida bracarensis bloodstream infection in an immunocompromised patient

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4677-4679

  Warren, Thomas A ^a   McTaggart, Lisa ^a   Richardson, Susan E ^a   Zhang, Sean X ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPOFUNGIN; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA BRACARENSIS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGEMIA; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA GLABRATA;

EID: 78650050668     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01447-10     Document Type: Article

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