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had been published that major parts of the text had been plagiarized almost verbatim from Colombo et al. (J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2816–2823, 2006). Prof.
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RETRACTION Nationwide Sentinel Surveillance of Bloodstream Candida Infections in 40 Tertiary Care Hospitals in Spain R. Cisterna, G. Ezpeleta, O. Telleria, J. Guinea, B. Regueiro, J. Garcia-Rodrı´guez, J. Esperalba, and The Spanish Candidemia Surveillance Group Basurto Hospital, Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Department, Bilbao, Spain; Hospital Universitario Gregorio Maran ˜o ´n, Clinical Microbiology Department, Madrid, Spain; Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Clinical Microbiology Department, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Hospital Universitario La Paz, Clinical Microbiology Department, Madrid, Spain; and Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Clinical Microbiology Department, Madrid, Spain Volume 48, no. 11, p. 4200–4206, 2010. We hereby retract this article. After publication of the article, we realized that we had failed to cite the article “Epidemiology of candidemia in Brazil: a nationwide sentinel surveillance of candidemia in eleven medical centers” by A. L. Colombo, M. Nucci, B. J. Park, S. A. Noue´r, B. Arthington-Skaggs, D. A. da Matta, D. Warnock, and J. Morgan for the Brazilian Network Candidemia Study (J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2816–2823, 2006). This article should have been cited as reference 9 in the References section instead of the article by A. L. Colombo, M. Nucci, R. Saloma˜o, M. L. Branchini, R. Richtmann, A. Derossi, and S. B. Wey (Diagn. Microbiol. Infect. Dis. 34:281–286, 1999). Moreover, we realized after our article had been published that major parts of the text had been plagiarized almost verbatim from Colombo et al. (J. Clin. Microbiol. 44:2816–2823, 2006). Prof. Cisterna and Dr. Ezpeleta express their deep and sincere apologies to Prof. Colombo and his Brazilian Network Candidemia Study team, to the clinical microbiology community, and to Journal of Clinical Microbiology readers for this embarrassing situation. In addition, we state that Jesus Guinea, Julio Garcı´a-Rodrı´guez, Juliana Esperalba, and Benito Regueiro should not have appeared in the author byline, as they contributed to the paper only by supplying isolates and clinical data for the patients and were not involved in the writing of the paper.

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