Cross-infection and diversity ofCandida albicansstrain carriage in patients and nursing staff on an intensive care unit
| Autor: | Cherry A. M. Fraser, G.A.J. Harrison, Paul R. Hunter |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
biology Isolation (health care) business.industry Strain (biology) General Medicine biology.organism_classification Intensive care unit Corpus albicans law.invention Infectious Diseases Carriage law Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Colonization Intensive care medicine Candida albicans business |
| Zdroj: | Medical Mycology. 28:317-325 |
| ISSN: | 1460-2709 1369-3786 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02681219080000401 |
| Popis: | Colonization of patients and nursing staff on an intensive care unit by Candida albicans was studied over a 4-month period. Multiple swabs and samples were taken from patients and their nurses on 12 occasions during the study period. During this study there were no obvious clinically relevant candidal infections. Patients yielded C. albicans from at least one body site on 68%, and nurses on 57% of occasions. All isolates of C. albicans were further characterized by both morphotyping and resistotyping. All patients but one were colonized by a single strain throughout their stay on the unit, whereas nurses were often colonized by more than one strain type. Strains isolated from nurses' hands were all indistinguishable from strains colonizing the patient under their care, whilst strains isolated from nurses' mouths were usually distinct from their patients'. The probability that a C. albicans culture positive nurse carried an indistinguishable strain from that of her positive patient was p = 0·632, compared ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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