Initial case of Candida dubliniensis infection from Asia: non-mucosal infection.
A yeast, repeatedly isolated from a post-surgical abdominal infection of a 75-year-old Japanese man, was genotyped as Candida dubliniensis. This is the first reported case in Asia of this recently described fungus.
Kamei
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Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, Japan.
McCullough
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MJ
Stevens
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D000368:Aged; D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D009092:Mucous Membrane / Q000382:microbiology; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*