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SUBMITTER: Krause R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874575 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Krause Robert R Halwachs Bettina B Thallinger Gerhard G GG Klymiuk Ingeborg I Gorkiewicz Gregor G Hoenigl Martin M Prattes Jürgen J Valentin Thomas T Heidrich Katharina K Buzina Walter W Salzer Helmut J F HJ Rabensteiner Jasmin J Prüller Florian F Raggam Reinhard B RB Meinitzer Andreas A Moissl-Eichinger Christine C Högenauer Christoph C Quehenberger Franz F Kashofer Karl K Zollner-Schwetz Ines I
PloS one 20160520 5
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 Candida growth in LRT (antibiotic therapy, ICU treatment with and without antibiotic therapy), ICU patients with pneumonia and antibiotic therapy and candidemic patients (for comparison of truly inva ...[more]