Candida species, genotypes and antifungal susceptibility of Candida isolates from blood samples of patients at the largest tertiary care hospital in Thailand during 1999-2002.

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From 1999 to 2002, a total of 202 Candida isolates causing candidemia were recovered from 202 individual patients in the largest tertiary hospital in Bangkok, Thailand. C. albicans comprised 44.55 per cent of all isolates. Non-albicans Candida spp. isolates accounted for 55.45 per cent of all candidemia episodes and were primarily due to C. tropicalis (45%) followed by C. parapsilosis (6%), C. glabrata (4%), and...

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