Changing trends in epidemiology and antifungal susceptibility patterns of six bloodstream Candida species isolates over a 12-year period in Kuwait

• Ziauddin Khan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zkhan@hsc.edu.kw

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0555-0370

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• Suhail Ahmad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Noura Al-Sweih,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait, Department of Microbiology, Maternity Hospital, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

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• Eiman Mokaddas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait, Department of Microbiology, Ibn-Sina Hospital, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

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• Khalifa Al-Banwan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait, Department of Microbiology, Al-Amiri Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4261-744X

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• Wadha Alfouzan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait, Department of Microbiology, Farwaniya Hospital, Farwaniya, Kuwait

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• Inaam Al-Obaid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Al-Sabah Hospital, Shuwaikh, Kuwait

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• Khaled Al-Obaid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait

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• Mohammad Asadzadeh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3270-055X

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• Ahlam Jeragh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Al-Adan Hospital, Hadyia, Kuwait

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• Leena Joseph,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Soumya Varghese,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Sandhya Vayalil,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Mycology Reference Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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• Omar Al-Musallam

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Mycology Reference Laboratory, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait

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