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Evidence for Person-to-Person Transmission of Candida lusitaniae in a Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sandra L. Fowler ,
Beth Rhoton ,
Shelley C. Springer ,
S.A. Messer ,
Richard J. Hollis  and
Michael A. Pfaller
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Abstract

Candida lusitaniae is an increasingly important nosocomial bloodstream pathogen. Epidemiological investigation and molecular typing techniques identified three neonates infected with identical strains of C lusitaniae that were distinguished readily from epidemiologically unrelated strains from other locations in the hospital. The results of this study provide evidence for nosocomial transmission of C lusitaniae in a neonatal intensive-care unit and suggest that these infants are at increased risk for infection with this agent

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , May 1998 , pp. 343 - 345
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998

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