TY - BOOK AU - Reem Fouad Moustafa Ahmed AU - Abdelrahman Ahmed Abdelrazek , AU - Amira Abdelfatah Edris , AU - Heba Hamed Arnaout , TI - Candida colonization in preterm babies admitted to neonatal intensive care unit / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reem Fouad Moustafa Ahmed , KW - Candida colonization KW - Invasive fungal KW - Preterm neonates N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Pediatrics; Issued also as CD N2 - Systemic fungal infection has increasingly become a significant problem in preterm infants cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) . Colonization with candida has been identified as the major risk factor and the first step in development of candidaemia . The NICU babies become colonized very early as about 10% of these babies get colonized in the first week of life and up to 64% of them get colonized by 4th week of hospital stay ER -