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Take Control Over Your Fluconazole Prescriptions: The Growing Importance of Candida glabrata as an Agent of Candidemia in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alessandro C. Pasqualotto ,
Ricardo A. Zimerman ,
Sydney H. Alves ,
Valerio R. Aquino ,
Daniela Branco ,
Denusa Wiltgen ,
Angelica do Amaral ,
Raquel Cechinel ,
Soraya M. Colares  and
Ivana G. da Rocha
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Alessandro C. Pasqualotto*
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre Santa Casa Complexo Hospitalar, and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Porto Alegre
Ricardo A. Zimerman
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Sydney H. Alves
Affiliation:
Mycology Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria; Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Valerio R. Aquino
Affiliation:
Mycology Laboratory, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre
Daniela Branco
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Denusa Wiltgen
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Angelica do Amaral
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Raquel Cechinel
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Soraya M. Colares
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Ivana G. da Rocha
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
Luiz Carlos Severo
Affiliation:
Mycology Laboratory, Porto Alegre Santa Casa Complexo Hospitalar, and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Porto Alegre
Teresa Cristina T. Sukiennik
Affiliation:
Infection Control department, Porto Alegre
*
Serviço de Controle de Infecção Hospitalar (SCIH), Santa Casa Complexo Hospitalar, 7° andar, Porto Alegre, 90035-075, Brazil (pasqualotto@santacasa.tche.br)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 9 , September 2008 , pp. 898 - 899
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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