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JAC Advance Access published online on November 16, 2007
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkm453
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Emergence of Candida tropicalis resistant to caspofungin

Tim Pasquale1, Jon Rupert Tomada1,*, Mahmoud Ghannoun2, Joseph Dipersio1 and Hector Bonilla1

1 Summa Health System, 75 Arch Street, Akron, OH 44304, USA 2 University Case Medical Center, 11100 Euclid Avenue, LKS 5028, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

* Corresponding author. Tel: +1-206-3727047; Fax: +1-330-3756608; E-mail: jonrupert@gmail.com

Key Words: echinocandins , invasive candidiasis , candidal oesophagitis

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Candida species is the fourth leading cause of nosocomial bloodstream infection in the USA. The incidence and mortality of invasive candidiasis (IC) remain high despite new antifungal agents. Although Candida albicans remains the most common isolated species causing IC, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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