951Outbreak of Mixed fungemia in a Children's Hospital in the United States
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States Duha Al-Zubeidi, MD; Brian Lee, MPH, PhD; Shawn Lockhart, PhD; Cau Pham, PhD; Nina Grossman, BS; Rangaraj Selvarangan, PhD; Robyn A. Livingston, MD; Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO; Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics and University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO; Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO; Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, MO
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