Evaluation of VITEK 2 for discriminating Trichosporon species: misidentification of Trichosporon non-T. asahii.

Autor: de Figueiredo DS; Laboratory of Medical Mycology (LIM-53) - Clinical Dermatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP and Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil., de Almeida JN Jr; Microbiology Section, Central Laboratory Division (LIM-03), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil., Motta AL; Microbiology Section, Central Laboratory Division (LIM-03), Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil., Castro e Silva DM; Mycology Unit, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Public Health Reference Laboratory, Secretary of Health, São Paulo State, Brazil., Szeszs MW; Mycology Unit, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Public Health Reference Laboratory, Secretary of Health, São Paulo State, Brazil., Del Negro GM; Laboratory of Medical Mycology (LIM-53) - Clinical Dermatology Division, Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP and Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: gildamdn@usp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease [Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis] 2014 Sep; Vol. 80 (1), pp. 59-61. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 May 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2014.05.017
Abstrakt: The VITEK 2 system was evaluated for the identification of 74 Trichosporon invasive and non-invasive clinical isolates, comparing its results with the IGS1 sequencing. The system correctly identified Trichosporon asahii but not non-T. asahii isolates, which represented nearly 50% of the invasive infections in our nosocomial setting.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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