Candidiasis in pediatric patients with cancer interned in a university hospital

Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Ana Maria Rabelo De Carvalho Parahym²  Luciana Resende Bandeira De Melo¹  Vera Lúcia Lins De Morais¹  Rejane Pereira Neves² 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Pernambuco Centro de Ciências Biológicas Departamento de MicologiaRecife PE ,Brasil

关键词: Candida spp.;    fungi infection;    candidaemia;    pediatric patient;    cancer;    Candida spp.;    infecção fúngica;    candidemia;    paciente pediátrico;    câncer;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1517-83822009000200020

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Fungi are common causes of infection in immunocompromised patients. Candida species are frequently involved in these cases. In order to investigate candidiasis in pediatric patients with cancer, clinical samples were collected from one hundred and twenty two patients interned in the Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital in Recife, Brazil. Yeasts were isolated from thirty-four clinical samples. The species isolated were: Candida albicans (fourteen isolates), C. parapsilosis (nine isolates), C. guilliermondii (two isolates) and C. tropicalis (two isolates). We found that candidemia was most frequent in patients with malignant hematology and that C. parapsilosis infections caused the highest mortality.

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