International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages e147-e149 , February 2010

Catheter-related fungemia caused by Candida intermedia

  • Sheng-Yuan Ruan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jung-Yien Chien

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Chung Hou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Po-Ren Hsueh

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Laboratory Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 2 23123456x5355.

Received 7 August 2008 ,Revised 3 February 2009 ,Accepted 18 March 2009.

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PII: S1201-9712(09)00151-9

doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2009.03.015

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 14, Issue 2 , Pages e147-e149 , February 2010

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