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A nosocomial outbreak of Candida parapsilosis in southern Sweden verified by genotyping.
Scandinavian journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2009
Brillowska-Dabrowska Anna, Schön T, Pannanusorn S, Lönnbro N, Bernhoff L, Bonnedal J, Haggstrom J, Wistedt A, Fernandez V, Arendrup M C
Abstract excerpt
In a haematology ward, Candida parapsilosis was found in blood cultures from 4 patients within a month. As C. parapsilosis is known to have a restricted genetic diversity, a combined methodological approach was adopted to establish a possible epidemiological relationship among the isolates (n = 9). Multilocus sequence typing and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis suggested a clonal origin of the isolates....
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