Mixed Fungemia: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Mortality in a General Hospital
Author(s) -
J. Jensen,
Patricia Muñóz,
Jesús Guinea,
Marta RodríguezCréixems,
Teresa Peláez,
Emilio Bouza
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/518175
Subject(s) - fungemia , medicine , incidence (geometry) , intensive care medicine , bacteremia , disease , mycosis , pediatrics , surgery , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , physics , optics , antibiotics
Fungemia has been historically considered to be a disease caused by a single Candida species; the detection of >1 species of yeast in circulating blood was distinctly uncommon using traditional microbiological procedures. We describe episodes of mixed fungemia (MF), detected between 1985 and 2006, in a large teaching hospital.
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