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Provedor de dados: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
País: | Brazil
Título: | Candidiasis in pediatric patients with cancer interned in a university hospital
Autores: | Parahym,Ana Maria Rabelo De Carvalho; Melo,Luciana Resende Bandeira de; Morais,Vera Lúcia Lins De; Neves,Rejane Pereira.
Data: | 2009-06-01
Ano: | 2009
Palavras-chave: | Candida spp.; Fungi infection; Candidaemia; Pediatric patient; Cancer.
Resumo: | Fungi are common causes of infection in immunocompromised patients. Candida species are frequently involved in these cases. In order to investigate candidiasis in pediatric patients with cancer, clinical samples were collected from one hundred and twenty two patients interned in the Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital in Recife, Brazil. Yeasts were isolated from thirty-four clinical samples. The species isolated were: Candida albicans (fourteen isolates), C. parapsilosis (nine isolates), C. guilliermondii (two isolates) and C. tropicalis (two isolates). We found that candidemia was most frequent in patients with malignant hematology and that C. parapsilosis infections caused the highest mortality.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822009000200020
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Microbiologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1517-83822009000200020
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Microbiology  v.40 n.2 2009
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess