Fungal Infections in a Pediatric Burn Care Unit
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[Fungal infections in the intensive care unit].
Invasive infections through to sepsis caused by fungi in intensive care units have increased markedly in the past few years. In the mean time almost every tenth case of sepsis in the intensive care unit is the result of an invasive fungal infection. Not only hemato-oncological or organ-transplanted patients are affected but increasingly also those patients who have been under intensive care for...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Infectious Diseases
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1201-9712
DOI: 10.1016/s1201-9712(08)60092-2