Quantitative evaluation of fungi of the genus Candida in the feces of adult patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes - A pilot study

Gut Pathogens

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gosiewski, Tomasz ^a   Salamon, Dominika ^a   Szopa, Magdalena ^a,b   Sroka, Agnieszka ^a   Malecki, Maciej T ^a,b   Bulanda, Malgorzata ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Candida; Feces; Serum lipids; T1DM; T2DM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939183522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17574749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13099-014-0043-z     Document Type: Article

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