COMPARISON BETWEEN FOUR USUAL METHODS OF IDENTIFICATION OF Candida SPECIES

SUMMARY Infection by Candidaspp. is associated with high mortality rates, especially when treatment is not appropriate and/or not immediate. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly identify the genus and species of Candida. The aim of this study was to compare the identification of 89 samples of Can...

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Main Authors: Margarida Neves SOUZA, Stéfanie Otowicz ORTIZ, Marcelo Martins MELLO, Flávio de Mattos OLIVEIRA, Luiz Carlos SEVERO, Cristine Souza GOEBEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-08-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652015000400281&lng=en&tlng=en