Predominance of Candida tropicalis bloodstream infections in a Singapore teaching hospital
| Autor: | Carol Chow, Fong Yee Chan, Yue Wang, Paul Ananth Tambyah, Gamini Kumarasinghe, Yi Ann Louis Chai, Ai Leng Khoo, Kamaljit Singh |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Antifungal Agents Adolescent medicine.drug_class Antibiotics Microbial Sensitivity Tests Teaching hospital Microbiology Candida tropicalis Epidemiology medicine Humans Icu stay Child DNA Fungal Hospitals Teaching Fluconazole Aged Candida Aged 80 and over Molecular Epidemiology Singapore biology Candidiasis Infant General Medicine Middle Aged biology.organism_classification Corpus albicans Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique Infectious Diseases Child Preschool Female Fungemia medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Medical mycology. 45(5) |
| ISSN: | 1369-3786 |
| Popis: | An 18-month epidemiologic investigation of Candida bloodstream infections in a Singapore hospital identified 52 candidemic patients: 36% of whose infections were caused by C. tropicalis, 29% were due to C. albicans, 10% with C. parapsilosis and 21% involved C. glabrata. A predominant clonal C. tropicalis strain was demonstrated. No association with ICU stay, prior exposure to fluconazole/broad-spectrum antibiotics or increased mortality was found in this apparent shift towards non-C. albicans Candida species as the primary agents of candidemia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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