Isolation and antifungal susceptibility testing of Trichosporon asahii in Ceará, Brazil

Trichosporon spp. are yeasts capable of causing invasive disease, which mainly affect immunocompromised patients. A clinical strain of T. asahii was isolated from the blood cultures of patients admitted to the General Hospital of Fortaleza. Susceptibility tests were conducted by disk diffusion and b...

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Published in:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
Main Authors: Everardo Albuquerque Menezes, José Arlécio de Sousa Marinho, Maria Rozzelê F. Angelo, Maria da Conceição dos Santos Oliveira Cunha, Francisco Afrânio Cunha, Antônio Alexandre de Vasconcelos Júnior
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2012
Subjects:
T. asahii
Fluconazole
Amphotericin B
Caspofungin
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46652012000100001
https://doaj.org/article/56bab5e920bb48689586834618b827ea
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Summary:Trichosporon spp. are yeasts capable of causing invasive disease, which mainly affect immunocompromised patients. A clinical strain of T. asahii was isolated from the blood cultures of patients admitted to the General Hospital of Fortaleza. Susceptibility tests were conducted by disk diffusion and broth microdilution. The isolated strain of T. asahii was resistant to fluconazole. The patient used amphotericin B and caspofungin in order to facilitate the microbiological cure. It was the first isolation and identification of T. asahii in blood culture in Ceará, Brazil.

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