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Mortality associated with candidemia in non-neutropenic cancer patients is not less compared to a neutropenic cohort of cancer patients

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank: (a) Sukdev Mukherjee, Krishnendu Das, Srabanti Bose, Rajkumar Mahto, Subhamoy Bhattacharya, and Parijat Das (laboratory technologists/scientific officer in microbiology at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India) for the technical support, (b) the WHO Collaborating Center for Reference & Research of Fungi of Medical Importance in the Department of Microbiology at PGIMER, Chandigarh, India for their support with quality control strains, confirmation of some of the isolates/antifungal susceptibility, and EQAS in Mycology.

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  1. Department of Microbiology, Tata Medical Center, 14 Major Arterial Road (E-W), New Town, Kolkata, 700 156, India

    G. Goel, K. Sengupta, K. Dhar & S. Bhattacharya

  2. Department of Clinical Hematology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    M. Chandy

  3. Department of Pediatric Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    A. Bhattacharyya

  4. Department of Gastro-intestinal and Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    S. Banerjee

  5. Department of Radiation Oncology, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    S. Chatterjee

  6. Department of Critical Care, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    S. Mullick

  7. Department of Statistics, Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India

    S. Sinha

  8. Department of Microbiology, Post-graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    S. Rudramurthy & A. Chakrabarti

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Goel, G., Chandy, M., Bhattacharyya, A. et al. Mortality associated with candidemia in non-neutropenic cancer patients is not less compared to a neutropenic cohort of cancer patients. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 36, 2533–2535 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10096-017-3078-5

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