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Outbreak of Candida parapsilosis fungemia in neonatal intensive care units: clinical implications and genotyping analysis.
Infection - 1 Jan 2000
Huang Y C, Lin T Y, Leu H S, Peng H L, Wu J H, Chang H Y
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During a 5-month period, 17 infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units of a medical center and a branch hospital developed 18 episodes of Candida parapsilosis fungemia. The mean age at onset was 35 days. Prior to fungemia, all the infants had received hyperalimentation and antibiotics, and 15 infants had had central venous catheters. The presenting symptoms were variable but only vague in 40% of the...
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