Invasive fungal infections in renal transplant patients: a single center study

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Table 1. Systemic fungal infections: comparative data.^5–10

	Gallis et al.^5	Nampoory et al.^6	John et al.^7	Jaykumar et al.^8	Gupta et al.^9	Chugh et al.^10^,^12
Fungal infection (%)	13	3.7	5.6	19	9.8	6.1
Candidiasis (%)	2.3	1.6	1.4	13.8	2.8	37
Cryptococcosis (%)	5.8	0.5	2.4	0.8	1.9	42
Aspergillosis (%)	1.2	0.9	1	3	2.3	5.5
Mucormycosis (%)	1.2	0.4	1.1	1.5	2	11
Others (%)	0.6	–	0.9	–	0.5	5.5

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