High rates of misidentification of uncommon Candida species causing bloodstream infections using conventional phenotypic methods

Echinocandin-resistant Candida tropicalis Bloodstream Infections

Candida kefyr as an emerging pathogen causing nosocomial bloodstream infections in neutropenic leukemia patients.

Figure 1. Response of Candida kefyr bloodstream infection in patient 3 to combination antifungal therapy that included caspofungin. Staphylococcus epidermidis was also detected in 2 blood cultures but disappeared after antibiotic treatment, according to the antibiogram. Day 0 was the day of allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT). a, Graph depicting recovery of the leukocy...

microdilution in vitro antifungal susceptibility patterns of candida species, from mild cutaneous to bloodstream infections

conclusions these findings highlight the importance of precise and correct species identification of clinical yeast isolates via molecular approaches, and of monitoring the antifungal susceptibility of candida species recovered from clinical sources. laboratories should consider routine mic testing of c. glabrata isolates collected from sterile sites. surveillance studies of candida species and...

development of different optical methods for determination of glucose using cadmium telluride quantum dots and silver nanoparticles

a simple, rapid and low-cost scanner spectroscopy method for the glucose determination by utilizing glucose oxidase and cdte/tga quantum dots as chromoionophore has been described. the detection was based on the combination of the glucose enzymatic reaction and the quenching effect of h2o2 on the cdte quantum dots (qds) photoluminescence.in this study glucose was determined by utilizing glucose...

comparative dna interaction studies of antiviral drug, zidovudine and its complex using different instrumental methods

هدف از این مطالعه بررسی امکان استفاده از داروهای شناخته شده در درمان سایر بیماریها به عنوان داروهای ضد سرطان است. همچنین با استفاده از این داروها در ساختمان کمپلکس فلز می توان شاخص های دارویی بدست آمده را بررسی نمود. داروی ضد ویروس ایدز(hiv)به نام زیدوودین(azt)انتخاب و.کمپلکس.محلول.در.آب[pt(azt)2]cl2سنتزو به روشهای مختلف فیزیکی و شیمیایی شناسایی گردید. بر هم کنش مقایسه ای این دارو و کمپلکس پلا...