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Prevention and treatment of invasive fungal infection in very low birthweight infants
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- Published on: 13 July 2009
- Published on: 13 July 2009Recent Experience of Invasive Fungal Infection in very low birth weight infants (VLBW)Show More
Further to the review by Brecht et al[1], we report our recent experience of Candida blood stream infections (CBSI’s) in our tertiary service. Over an 8 year period, we identified 30 infants with CBSI’s from a cohort of 1474 VLBW infants (2%). The incidence was 6% and 4.3%, for infants born weighing <750 and 750-1000 grams respectively.
This is similar to the incidence reported in 2002 by the National Instit...
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