A first Portuguese epidemiological survey of fungaemia in a university hospital.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on January 19, 2008

Authors

S Costa-de-Oliveira1, C Pina-Vaz, D Mendonça, A Gonçalves Rodrigues

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Porto University, Alameda Professor Hernani Monteiro, 4200 Porto, Portugal. sqco@med.up.pt

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