Budding Yeast Cells in Peripheral Blood Smear: Clue to Candidemia
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www.icjournal.org Budding Yeast Cells in Peripheral Blood Smear: Clue to Candidemia Sung-Yeon Cho, Hyojin Chae, Myungshin Kim, Dong-Gun Lee, and Hee-Je Kim Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic Blood and Marrow Transplantation Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Division of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Leukemia Research Institute, College of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea
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