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- Title
Taxonomic characteristic of yeast-like fungi and yeasts isolated from respiratory system and digestive tract of human.
- Authors
Góralska, Katarzyna; Dynowska, Maria; Barańska, Grażyna; Troska, Piotr; Tenderenda, Michał
- Abstract
Introduction: An increasing number of reports have been issued in the recent years on considerably increased frequency of yeast-like fungi and yeast in organ ontocenoses of man. This applies in particular the respiratory and digestive systems. Aim of the study: The aim of this study was the taxonomical analysis of yeast and yeast-like fungi from the respiratory system and gastrointestinal tract of human with particular emphasis on the number of taxa and attention to the dominant species and rare species in the different sections of studied ontocenosis. Material and methods: The experimental material were yeast-like fungi and yeasts isolated from the respiratory and the digestive system of human. The fungi were cultured and identified following standard principles of mycological diagnostics. Results: The fungi isolated from the respiratory system were classified to 37 species and from the gastrointestinal tract – to 23 species. The predominating species turned out to be the Candida albicans, constituting 19.49% in the respiratory system and 27.87% in the digestive system. Conclusions: Five species have been isolated for the first time in Poland. The abundance of the species detected and the presence of perfect stages in the material examined imply a successive increase in the expansiveness of fungi towards human tissues. Results obtained confirms that the respiratory systems affords the fungi better conditions for the survival and growth.
- Subjects
POLAND; TAXONOMY; YEAST-like fungi; MYCOSES; MYCOLOGY; MEDICAL parasitology; CANDIDA albicans
- Publication
Medical Mycology / Mikologia, 2011, Vol 18, Issue 4, p211
- ISSN
1232-986X
- Publication type
Article