Clostridium difficile Infection and Candida Colonization of the Gut: Is There a Correlation?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1648-1649

  Raponi, Giammarco ^a   Visconti, Valeria ^b   Brunetti, Grazia ^b   Ghezzi, Maria Cristina ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDEMIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOGENICITY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

AMINOGLYCOSIDES; CANDIDA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84924424994     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu637     Document Type: Letter

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