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Candida albicans strain carriage in patients and nursing staff of an intensive care unit: a study of morphotypes and resistotypes.
Mycoses - 1 Dec 2003
Khan Z U, Chandy R, Metwali K E
Abstract excerpt
Candida albicans carriage of patients and nursing staff of an intensive care unit (ICU) was studied over an 8-month period. Swabs were taken at weekly intervals from multiple sites from patients. None of the patients had clinical Candida infection at the time of the first sampling. The hands and mouth of the nursing staff were sampled at fortnightly intervals. Of the 68 patients investigated for varying periods,...
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