title: Four-year persistence of a single Candida albicans genotype causing bloodstream infections in a surgical ward proven by multilocus sequence typing.
abstract: The present study represents the first application of multilocus sequence typing to retrospectively investigate a suspected outbreak of Candida albicans bloodstream infection cases that occurred in the same hospital ward between July 1987 and October 1991. Results demonstrated that eight bloodstream infections were caused by the same strain, endemic in the ward, over a 4-year period.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. marianna.viviani@unimi.it
authors.forename: Maria Anna
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Viviani
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cogliati
authors.forename: Maria Carmela
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Esposto
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Prigitano
authors.forename: Anna Maria
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tortorano
mesh_terms: D002176:Candida albicans / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000032:analysis*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016469:Fungemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D010802:Phylogeny; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital
chemical_list: D004271:DNA, Fungal