Detection and Control of Fungal Outbreaks

Diego H Caceres^{1

2}, Ratna Mohd Tap³, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo⁴, Ferry Hagen^{5

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA. xju7@cdc.gov.
² Center of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. xju7@cdc.gov.
³ Mycology Laboratory, Institute for Medical Research, National Institute of Health, Setia Alam, 40170, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ Medical Mycology Reference Laboratory, National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Medical Mycology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.
⁶ Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.
⁷ Laboratory of Medical Mycology, Jining No. 1 People's Hospital, Jining, Shandong, People's Republic of China. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.

Diego H Caceres et al. Mycopathologia. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;185(5):741-745.

doi: 10.1007/s11046-020-00494-1. Epub 2020 Oct 10.

Diego H Caceres^{1

2}, Ratna Mohd Tap³, Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo⁴, Ferry Hagen^{5

6

7}

¹ Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Rd. NE, Atlanta, GA, 30329, USA. xju7@cdc.gov.
² Center of Expertise in Mycology Radboudumc/CWZ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. xju7@cdc.gov.
³ Mycology Laboratory, Institute for Medical Research, National Institute of Health, Setia Alam, 40170, Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ Medical Mycology Reference Laboratory, National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁵ Department of Medical Mycology, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.
⁶ Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.
⁷ Laboratory of Medical Mycology, Jining No. 1 People's Hospital, Jining, Shandong, People's Republic of China. f.hagen@wi.knaw.nl.

No abstract available

Keywords: Emerging pathogen; Fungal infection; Immunodiagnostics; Molecular diagnostics; Molecular epidemiology; Nosocomial outbreak.

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