463Incidence of Candidemia In Pediatric Liver Transplant Patients
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Maia De Luca, MD; Sarah B. Klieger, MPH; Andreas Damianos, MD; Michael Green, MD, MPH; Theoklis Zaoutis, MD, MSCE; Brian T. Fisher, DO, MSCE; University Hospital Pediatric Department, Bambino Gesu’ Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy; Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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