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Contribution of molecular typing methods and antifungal susceptibility testing to the study of a candidemia cluster in a burn care unit.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Dec 1995
Bart-Delabesse E, van Deventer H, Goessens W, Poirot J L, Lioret N, van Belkum A, Dromer F
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We investigated a cluster of cases of Candida septicemia diagnosed in four burn patients. Twenty clinical isolates of Candida albicans and two of Candida parapsilosis, plus eight isolates of C. albicans recovered from nurses' clothes, were analyzed by antifungal susceptibility testing and three genotyping methods (restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with EcoRI and HinfI, arbitrarily primed PCR, and...
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