Characterisation of Candida within the Mycobiome/Microbiome of the Lower Respiratory Tract of ICU Patients.

Characterisation of Candida within the Mycobiome/Microbiome of the Lower Respiratory Tract of ICU Patients.

Whether the presence of Candida spp. in lower respiratory tract (LRT) secretions is a marker of underlying disease, intensive care unit (ICU) treatment and antibiotic therapy or contributes to poor clinical outcome is unclear. We investigated healthy controls, patients with proposed risk factors for...

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Main Authors: Robert Krause, Bettina Halwachs, Gerhard G Thallinger, Ingeborg Klymiuk, Gregor Gorkiewicz, Martin Hoenigl, Jürgen Prattes, Thomas Valentin, Katharina Heidrich, Walter Buzina, Helmut J F Salzer, Jasmin Rabensteiner, Florian Prüller, Reinhard B Raggam, Andreas Meinitzer, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Christoph Högenauer, Franz Quehenberger, Karl Kashofer, Ines Zollner-Schwetz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0155033

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