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Hospital Outbreak of Fluconazole-Resistant Candida parapsilosis: Arguments for Clonal Transmission and Long-Term Persistence

Arnaud Fekkar, Marion Blaize, Adrien Bouglé, Anne‐Cécile Normand, Audrey Raoelina, Dimitri Kornblum, Laure Kamus, Renaud Piarroux, Sébastien Imbert

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2021 · 82 citations · 23 references

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The worldwide emergence of multidrug-resistant pathogenic fungi is a threat to human health. At this very moment, an emergence of Candida parapsilosis isolates harboring a resistance to fluconazole, one of the most popular antifungal drugs, is being described in several countries.

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