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- Title
ISOLATION AND ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING OF Trichosporon asahii IN CEARÁ, BRAZIL.
- Authors
Menezes, Everardo Albuquerque; Marinho, José Arlécio De Sousa; Angelo, Maria Rozzelê F.; Cunha, Maria Da Conceição Dos Santos Oliveira; Cunha, Francisco Afrânio; de Vasconcelos Júnior, Antônio Alexandre
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
FORTALEZA (Brazil); BRAZIL; MICROBIAL sensitivity tests; ANTIFUNGAL agents; YEAST; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients; FLUCONAZOLE
- Publication
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2012, Vol 54, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0036-4665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0036-46652012000100001