Candida bracarensis bloodstream infection in an immunocompromised patient.
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چکیده
Candida bracarensis is a recently described Candida species which is phenotypically similar to Candida glabrata. A case of C. bracarensis bloodstream infection in a bone marrow transplant patient is described and confirms this organism as an opportunistic human pathogen. The organism can be distinguished from C. glabrata by its white color on CHROMagar and by DNA sequence analysis using D1/D2 and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) primers.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of clinical microbiology
دوره 48 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010