We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Nosocomial transmission of Candida pelliculosa fungemia in a pediatric intensive care unit and review of the literature.
- Authors
Kalkancı, Ayşe; Dizbay, Murat; Turan, Özden; Fidan, Işıl; Yalçın, Burçe; Hirfanoğlu, İbrahim; Kuştimur, Semra; Aktaş, Firdevs; Sugita, Takashi
- Abstract
Horizontal transmission of Candida species in the hospital environment and the fungemia rates have increased in the past decade. We describe a nosocomial cluster of fungemia caused by Candida pelliculosa (teleomorph Pichia anomala) in four infants hospitalized in the pediatric intensive care unit. Candida isolates had strictly related fingerprints, as generated by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis using five different primer sets. The four babies were all treated successfully and recovered. All of the isolates were susceptible to the antifungals tested including amphotericin B, flucytosine, fluconazole, miconazole, micafungin, itraconazole, and voriconazole. Infection control procedures were adapted in the unit and no relapse was detected. In addition, 30 publications presenting 450 pediatric and 28 adult cases are reviewed.
- Subjects
CANDIDA; NOSOCOMIAL infections in children; PEDIATRIC intensive care; AMPHOTERICIN B; MICONAZOLE; INFANT diseases
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2010, Vol 52, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
0041-4301
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24953/turkjped.2010.1858