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Whole Genome Sequencing of Candida glabrata for Detection of Markers of Antifungal Drug Resistance
Published on: December 28, 2017
Diagnosis of systemic Candida infections
1Division of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
Annual Review of Medicine
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
Invasive candidiasis has become an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients receiving aggressive antineoplastic chemotherapy, in recipients of bone marrow transplants, and in other patient groups. The illness provides the clinician with few clues to its nature or presence. This paper reviews developments over the past three decades in the laboratory diagnosis of this important infection.
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