Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

BIBTEX RIS

Kodamaea (Pichia) ohmeri fungemia in a pediatric patient admitted in a public hospital

2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 47; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3109/13693780902980467

1460-2709

Jadson Duque De Barros, Suerda Maria Nogueira Do Nascimento, Fernanda Janaína Silva De Araújo, Regina de Fátima dos Santos Braz, Vânia Sousa Andrade, Bart Theelen, Teun Boekhout, María Teresa Illnait Zaragozí, Maria Narriman Guimarães Gouveia, Maria C. Fernandes, Maria Goretti Lins Monteiro, Maria Tereza Barreto de Oliveira,

Antifungal resistance and susceptibility

Kodamaea (Pichia) ohmeri is a yeast species that has not been reported to be a frequent cause of human infections. The current report describes a case of fungemia caused by K. ohmeri in a 3-year-old female patient hospitalized in the public hospital Maria Alice Fernandes, Natal, RN, Brazil. The patient had previously received antimicrobial therapy due to a peritoneal infection and nosocomial pneumonia, and had a central venous catheter implanted. Kodamaea ohmeri was isolated from blood and the tip of the catheter, 48 h after its implantation. The yeast was identified by standard microbiological methods and sequence analysis of the D1/D2 domains and the ITS 1 + 2 spacer regions of the ribosomal DNA. On CHROMagar Candida medium, the isolate showed a color change from pink to blue. The yeast was susceptible to amphotericin B, and liposomal AmB was used successfully to clear the infection.