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Isolation and antifungal susceptibility testing of Trichosporon asahii in Ceará, Brazil
2012; UNIVERSIDADE DE SÃO PAULO; Volume: 54; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1590/s0036-46652012000100001
ISSN1678-9946
AutoresEverardo Albuquerque Menezes, José Arlécio de Sousa Marinho, Maria Rozzelê Ferreira Ângelo, Maria da Conceição dos Santos Oliveira Cunha, Francisco Afrânio Cunha, Antônio Alexandre de Vasconcelos Júnior,
Tópico(s)Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
ResumoTrichosporon 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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