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Clinical and molecular characteristics of bloodstream infections caused by Candida albicans in children from 2003 to 2011.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Nov 2015
Tsai M-H, Wang S-H, Hsu J-F, Lin L-C, Chu S-M, Huang H-R, Chiang M-C, Fu R-H, Lu J-J, Huang Y-C
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We investigated the clinical and molecular characteristics of Candida albicans bloodstream infection (BSI) in children from a tertiary-level medical centre in Taiwan over a 9-year period from January 2003 to December 2011. We performed multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to investigate the genetic relatedness of these C. albicans BSI isolates. A total of 79 episodes of C. albicans BSI in 76 paediatric patients were...
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