Initial case ofCandida dubliniensisinfection from Asia: non-mucosal infection
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Medical Mycology
- Vol. 38 (1) , 81-83
- https://doi.org/10.1080/mmy.38.1.81.83
Abstract
A yeast, repeatedly isolated from a post-surgical abdominal infection of a 75-year-old Japanese man, was genotyped as Candida dubliniensis. This is the first reported case in Asia of this recently described fungus.Keywords
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