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Provedor de dados: 	58	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Clinical significance of the isolation of Candidaspecies from hospitalized patients	
Autores: 	Magalhães,Yankee C.; Bomfim,Maria Rosa Q.; Melônio,Luciane C.; Ribeiro,Patrícia C.S.; Cosme,Lécia M.; Rhoden,Cristianne R.; Marques,Sirlei G.	
Data: 	2015-03-01	
Ano: 	2015	
Palavras-chave: 	Fungal infections; Susceptibility profile; Nosocomial infections.	
Resumo: 	In this study, we isolated and phenotypically identified 108 yeast strains from various clinical specimens collected from 100 hospitalized patients at three tertiary hospitals in São Luís-Maranhão, Brazil, from July to December 2010. The isolates were analyzed for their susceptibility to four of the most widely used antifungal agents in the surveyed hospitals, amphotericin B, fluconazole, 5-flucytosine and voriconazole. The species identified were Candida albicans (41.4%), Candida tropicalis (30.1%), C. glabrata (7.4%), Candida parapsilosis(5.5%), Candida krusei (4.6%), Cryptococcus neoformans (4.6%), Trichosporonspp. (3.7%), Candida norvegensis (0.9%), Rhodotorula glutinis (0.9%) and Pichia farinosa (0.9%). A higher isolation rate was observed in the following clinical specimens: urine (54 isolates; 50%), respiratory tract samples (21 isolates; 19.4%) and blood (20 isolates; 18.6%). Candida albicans isolates were 100% sensitive to all antifungal agents tested, whereas Candida krusei and Crytococcus neoformans displayed intermediate resistance to 5-flucytosine, with Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) values of 8 mg/mL and 16 mg/mL, respectively. Both strains were also S-DD to fluconazole with an MIC of 16 mg/mL. C. tropicalis was resistant to 5-flucytosine with an MIC of 32 μg/mL. This study demonstrates the importance of identifying the yeast species involved in community and nosocomial infections.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822015000100117	
Editor: 	Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1517-838246120120296	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.46 n.1 2015	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess