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Candida Species: Emerging Hospital Bloodstream Pathogens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Richard P. Wenzel  and
Michael A. Pfaller
Richard P. Wenzel*
Affiliation:
Division of General Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Services I&search, Department of internal Medicine, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa
Michael A. Pfaller
Affiliation:
Clinical Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Oregon Health Science University, Portland, Oregon
*
Division of General Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology, and Health Services Research, C41 GH, The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 12 , Issue 9 , September 1991 , pp. 523 - 524
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1991

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