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

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo

Everardo Albuquerque Menezes¹  José Arlécio De Sousa Marinho¹  Maria Rozzelê F. Angelo²  Maria Da Conceição Dos Santos Oliveira Cunha¹  Francisco Afrânio Cunha¹  Antônio Alexandre De Vasconcelos Júnior¹ 

[1] ,Federal University of Ceará College of Pharmacy Laboratory of Microbiology of Yeasts

关键词: T. asahii;    Fluconazole;    Amphotericin B;    Caspofungin;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0036-46652012000100001

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

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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