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Four-year persistence of a single Candida albicans genotype causing bloodstream infections in a surgical ward proven by multilocus sequence typing.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Jan 2006
Viviani Maria Anna, Cogliati Massimo, Esposto Maria Carmela, Prigitano Anna, Tortorano Anna Maria
Abstract excerpt
The present study represents the first application of multilocus sequence typing to retrospectively investigate a suspected outbreak of Candida albicans bloodstream infection cases that occurred in the same hospital ward between July 1987 and October 1991. Results demonstrated that eight bloodstr...
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