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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
País: | Brazil
Título: | Prevalence of Candida species in umbilical catheters implanted in newborns in Natal, Brazil
Autores: | Fernandes,Ana Cristina Santos; Sousa Junior,Francisco Canindé de; Oliveira,Solange Maria de; Calich,Lucia; Milan,Eveline Pipolo.
Data: | 2007-03-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Fungemia; Candida; Catheterization; Central venous; Newborn.
Resumo: | All the newborns with umbilical venous catheters, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit at Januário Cicco Maternity Hospital in Natal, Brazil, between January, 2003 and December, 2004 were studied. The prevalence of Candida species in the tips of intra-venous catheters was assessed, as well as the coexisting exposures that the patients were subjected to. Catheter tips were cultivated in blood agar and when yeast culture occurred, the colony was subcultivated for species identification through morphologic and biochemical assays. From a total of 240 catheters, 41 were positive for yeasts, and 34 were submitted to identification. The following agents were isolated: 13 C. albicans (38%), 10 Candida parapsilosis (29%), 8 C. tropicalis (20%), one C. guilliermondii (3%), one C. famata (3%) and one Trichosporon spp. (3%). Three patients among those with positive catheter tip fungal cultures were also hemoculture positive, with the same fungal species at both sites. Among the coexisting exposures, it should be pointed out that all the patients underwent broad spectrum antibiotic therapy, used a nasogastric probe, in addition to undergoing other invasive procedures such as mechanical ventilation and umbilical catheter implantation.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822007000100021
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1517-83822007000100021
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.38 n.1 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess