Molecular analyses of Fusarium isolates recovered from a cluster of invasive mold infections in a Brazilian hospital

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Scheel, Christina M ^a   Hurst, Steven F ^a   Barreiros, Gloria ^b   Akiti, Tiyomi ^b   Nucci, Marcio ^b   Balajee, S Arunmozhi ^a  

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

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplant; Brazil; Community acquired disease; Fusarium; Hospital associated infection; Invasive fungal infection; Invasive fusariosis; Molecular epidemiology; Multi locus sequence typing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BRAZIL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM INCARNATUM EQUISETI; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSLATION ELONGATION FACTOR 1 ALPHA GENE; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; WILD TYPE;

BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84873044298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-13-49     Document Type: Article

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