Correction: Antifungal treatment for invasive Candida infections: a mixed treatment comparison meta-analysis
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Address: 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada, 2Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 3Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, 4Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 5Departments of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 6Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, 7Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Research Center, King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 8Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA and 9Division of Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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