Candida parapsilosis characterization in an outbreak setting.

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Published in Emerg Infect Dis on June 01, 2004

Authors

Duncan M Kuhn1, Pranab K Mikherjee, Thomas A Clark, Claude Pujol, Jyotsna Chandra, Rana A Hajjeh, David W Warnock, David R Soil, Mahmoud A Ghannoum

Author Affiliations

1: University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.

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