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Fatal Outbreak of Polyclonal Candidemia in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Victor Costa Morais de Oliveira ,
Valeria Saraceni ,
Izabella Picinin Safe ,
Alessandra Galvão Martins ,
Tatyana Costa Amorim Ramos ,
Joao Vicente Braga de Souza  and
Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos
Victor Costa Morais de Oliveira*
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Valeria Saraceni
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Secretaria Municipal de Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Izabella Picinin Safe
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Alessandra Galvão Martins
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Tatyana Costa Amorim Ramos
Affiliation:
Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Joao Vicente Braga de Souza
Affiliation:
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
Marcelo Cordeiro-Santos
Affiliation:
Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil
*
Tropical Medicine Foundation Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, Avenida Pedro Teixeira, 25, CEP 69040-000, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil (marcelocordeiro.br@gmail.com).
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Letter to the Editor
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 8 , August 2014 , pp. 1077 - 1079
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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