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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | Cluster of Candida parapsilosis primary bloodstream infection in a neonatal intensive care unit
Autores: | Silva,Carmem Lúcia P. da; Santos,Rosana M. R. dos; Colombo,Arnaldo Lopes.
Data: | 2001-02-01
Ano: | 2001
Palavras-chave: | Candidemia; Nosocomial infections; Neonate.
Resumo: | Candida parapsilosis is an increasingly important bloodstream pathogen in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). We investigated a cluster of bloodstream infections in a NICU to determine whether nosocomial transmission occurred. During a 3-day period, 3 premature infants hospitalized in the same unit presented with sepsis caused by C. parapsilosis. Electrophoretic karyotype of the organisms was performed by using pulsed field gel electrophoresis in a countour-clamped homogeneous electric field system. The isolate from 1 newborn could not be typed, and the isolates from the remaining 2 infants had identical patterns. All 3 cases are described. We conclude that nosocomial transmission of C. parapsilosis occurred and that neonates under intensive care may represent a risk group for this pathogen.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702001000100005
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1590/S1413-86702001000100005
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.5 n.1 2001
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess