Candida auris for the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory: Not Your Grandfather's Candida Species

Clinical Microbiology Newsletter

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2017, Pages 99-103

  Lockhart, Shawn R ^a   Berkow, Elizabeth L ^a   Chow, Nancy ^a   Welsh, Rory M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; ASIA; CANDIDA; COMMENSAL; EAR; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRANDFATHER; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; SKIN;

EID: 85020910206     PISSN: 01964399     EISSN: 18734391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinmicnews.2017.06.003     Document Type: Article

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