Nosocomial Candidiasis: Emerging Species, Reservoirs, and Modes of Transmission

An overview of nosocomial infections, including the role of the microbiology laboratory

1993 • 1,266 citations

A Controlled Trial of Fluconazole to Prevent Fungal Infections in Patients Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation

1992 • 1,179 citations

Secular Trends in the Epidemiology of Nosocomial Fungal Infections in the United States, 1980-1990

1993 • 1,164 citations

A Randomized Trial Comparing Fluconazole with Amphotericin B for the Treatment of Candidemia in Patients without Neutropenia

1994 • 1,040 citations

Increase inCandida kruseiInfection among Patients with Bone Marrow Transplantation and Neutropenia Treated Prophylactically with Fluconazole

1991 • 957 citations

Secular trends in nosocomial primary bloodstream infections in the United States, 1980–1989

1991 • 896 citations

Epidemiology of Nosocomial Fungal Infections, with Emphasis on Candida Species

1995 • 651 citations

Predominant pathogens in hospital infections

1992 • 593 citations

Importance of Candida Species Other than C. albicans as Pathogens in Oncology Patients

1995 • 562 citations

Risk factors for hospital-acquired candidemia. A matched case-control study

1989 • 520 citations

Nosocomial infection rates in adult and pediatric intensive care units in the United States

1991 • 508 citations

Fungemia in a Cancer Hospital: Changing Frequency, Earlier Onset, and Results of Therapy

1985 • 493 citations

Fungemia Caused by Candida Species and Torulopsis glabrata in the Hospitalized Patient: Frequency, Characteristics, and Evaluation of Factors Influencing Outcome

1989 • 475 citations

Candida parapsilosis: Epidemiology, Pathogenicity, Clinical Manifestations, and Antimicrobial Susceptibility

1992 • 399 citations

Fluconazole Prophylaxis of Fungal Infections in Patients with Acute Leukemia: Results of a Randomized Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Multicenter Trial

1993 • 374 citations

Association of Torulopsis glabrata infections with fluconazole prophylaxis in neutropenic bone marrow transplant patients

1993 • 352 citations

Candida tropicalis: A Major Pathogen in Immunocompromised Patients

1979 • 311 citations

Antifungal susceptibility testing of isolates from a randomized, multicenter trial of fluconazole versus amphotericin B as treatment of nonneutropenic patients with candidemia. NIAID Mycoses Study Group and the Candidemia Study Group

1995 • 303 citations

Risk factors for nosocomial candidemia: A case-control study in adults without leukemia

1989 • 270 citations

Genotypic variation and slime production among blood and catheter isolates of Candida parapsilosis

1994 • 255 citations

Fluconazole susceptibilities of Candida species and distribution of species recovered from blood cultures over a 5-year period

1994 • 241 citations

Investigation of the sequence of colonization and candidemia in nonneutropenic patients

1994 • 232 citations

Characterization of the sequence of colonization and nosocomial candidemia using DNA fingerprinting and a DNA probe

1990 • 221 citations

The Value of Fungal Surveillance Cultures as Predictors of Systemic Fungal Infections

1980 • 220 citations

Risk factors for candidemia in cancer patients: a case-control study

1988 • 218 citations

Characterization of an azole-resistant Candida glabrata isolate

1992 • 207 citations

Risk factors associated with candidemia in the neonatal intensive care unit

1987 • 204 citations

Treatment of Infections Associated with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

1988 • 203 citations

High frequency of yeast carriage on hands of hospital personnel

1994 • 191 citations

Risk Factors for Candidemia in Patients with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

1991 • 191 citations

Epidemiology and Control of Fungal Infections

1994 • 161 citations

Epidemiology of candidiasis.

1995 • 156 citations

Increased incidence of fungemia caused by Candida krusei

1986 • 145 citations

Mycoses Caused by Candida lusitaniae

1987 • 139 citations

Nosocomial fungemia in a large community teaching hospital.

1987 • 136 citations

Nosocomial acquisition of Candida parapsilosis: An epidemiologic study

1993 • 136 citations

Emergence of a new opportunistic pathogen, Candida lusitaniae

1989 • 132 citations

Fatal septicemia due to amphotericin B-resistant Candida lusitaniae

1983 • 131 citations

Invasive fungal disease in pediatric acute leukemia patients with fever and neutropenia during induction chemotherapy: a multivariate analysis of risk factors.

1990 • 120 citations

Pathologic Features in the Human Alimentary Tract Associated with Invasiveness of Candida Tropicalis

1986 • 116 citations

Torulopsis glabrata infections in patients with cancer

1976 • 111 citations

Outbreak of Candida bloodstream infections associated with retrograde medication administration in a neonatal intensive care unit

1992 • 109 citations

Chemoprophylaxis of fungal infections

1984 • 102 citations

Epidemiology of nosocomial acquisition of Candida lusitaniae

1992 • 101 citations

Variables predicting deep fungal infections in bone marrow transplant recipients.

1989 • 99 citations

Pathogenicity of Candida tropicalis and Candida albicans after gastrointestinal inoculation in mice

1980 • 95 citations

Single-source outbreak of Candida tropicalis complicating coronary bypass surgery

1989 • 93 citations

Epidemiology of Fungal Infections: The Promise of Molecular Typing

1995 • 89 citations

Strain delineation and antifungal susceptibilities of epidemiologically related and unrelated isolates of Candida lusitaniae

1994 • 88 citations

Fungemia in Patients with Leukemia

1993 • 82 citations

Predictive value of surveillance cultures for systemic infection due toCandida species

1987 • 81 citations

Restriction fragment analysis of a Candida tropicalis outbreak of sternal wound infections

1991 • 80 citations

Candida krusei Fungemia

1993 • 77 citations

Invasive Infection Due to Candida krusei in Immunocompromised Patients Not Treated with Fluconazole

1995 • 76 citations

Biotype Diversity of Candida parapsilosis and Its Relationship to the Clinical Source and Experimental Pathogenicity

1995 • 75 citations

Differences in virulence of clinical isolates of Candida tropicalis and Candida albicans in mice

1982 • 72 citations

Variations in DNA subtype, antifungal susceptibility, and slime production among clinical isolates of Candida parapsilosis

1995 • 72 citations

Outbreak of Candida tropicalis Fungemia in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

1993 • 69 citations

Differential adhesion of pathogenicCandidaspecies to epithelial and inert surfaces

1985 • 68 citations

Evidence of nosocomial spread of Candida albicans causing bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit

1995 • 60 citations

Strain delineation and epidemiology of Candida (Clavispora) lusitaniae

1992 • 56 citations

An experimental model for study ofCandida survival and transmission in human volunteers

1994 • 56 citations

Electrophoretic karyotypes of Torulopsis glabrata

1989 • 55 citations

Four outbreaks of nosocomial systemic candidiasis

1987 • 55 citations

APPARENT INCREASE IN FREQUENCY OF INFECTIONS INVOLVING TORULOPSIS GLABRATA

1957 • 54 citations

Nosocomial Outbreak of Systemic Candidosis Associated With Parenteral Nutrition

1990 • 51 citations

Candida lusitaniae

1987 • 47 citations

Candida and hands

1986 • 41 citations

Efficacy of Fluconazole in the Treatment of Upper Gastrointestinal Candidiasis in Neutropenic Patients with Cancer: Factors Influencing the Outcome

1994 • 30 citations

Antifungal Prophylaxis in Immunocompromised Hosts

1993 • 28 citations