Candida Infection
Very-low-birthweight infants may harbor Candida for a prolonged time period
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 2005
According to a study from Taiwan, "To analyse the relatedness of colonizing candidal isolates from very-low-birthweight infants hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), we prospectively collected 86 candidal isolates from 20 infants, including 67 isolates of Candida albicans from 15 infants, 17 isolates of Candida parapsilosis from five infants and two isolates of Candida glabrata from one infant, who also had C. albicans colonization, over a 1 year period."
"All 86 isolates were genotyped by infrequent-restriction-site...
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