Candida haemulonii complex species, Brazil, January 2010-march 2015

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 561-563

  de Almeida, João Nobrega ^a   Assy, João Guilherme Pontes Lima ^a   Levin, Anna S ^a   del Negro, Gilda M B ^a   Giudice, Mauro C ^a   Tringoni, Marcela Pullice ^a   Thomaz, Danilo Yamamoto ^a   Motta, Adriana Lopes ^a   Abdala, Edson ^a   Pierroti, Ligia Camara ^a   Strabelli, Tania ^a   Munhoz, Ana Lucia ^a   Rossi, Flávia ^a   Benard, Gil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIDULAFUNGIN; CASPOFUNGIN; FLUCONAZOLE; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; VORICONAZOLE; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; CANDIDA; CANDIDA DUOBUSHAEMULONII; CANDIDA HAEMULONII; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL CULTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LETTER; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; ALLELE; BRAZIL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HISTORY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ALLELES; BRAZIL; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS;

EID: 84958787621     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2203.151610     Document Type: Letter

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