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Isolation and identification of Candida species in patients with orogastric cancer: susceptibility to antifungal drugs, attributes of virulence in vitro and immune response phenotype

2016; BioMed Central; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1186/s12879-016-1431-4

1471-2334

Lourimar Viana Nascimento Franco de Sousa, Vera Lúcia dos Santos, Andrea de Souza Monteiro, Marcus Vinícius Dias-Souza, Sirlei Garcia Marques, Elaine Speziali de Faria, Elaine Alves de Oliveira Assunção, Simone Gonçalves dos Santos, Juan Moises Zonis, Daniel Alvarenga, Rodrigo Assunção Holanda, Jaqueline Gontijo de Sousa, Kênia Valéria dos Santos, Maria Aparecida de Resende,

Oral health in cancer treatment

Because of the inherent immunosuppression of cancer patients opportunistic infections by Candida spp, occur frequently. This study aimed to identify Candida species in the oral mucosa of 59 patients with orogastric cancer (OGC) and to analyze the immunological phenotype of these patients. The yeasts were identified by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MS). For all isolates, we performed phospholipases and proteinases assays, in vitro adherence to buccal epithelial cells (BEC), minimum inhibitory concentration of antifungal drugs and determined the cytokine profile by Cytometric Bead Array flow citometry assay. C. albicans was the most prevalent species in OGC patients (51.6 %) and control group (66.7 %). Candida spp. strains isolated from OGC patients exhibited better adherence to BEC (p = 0.05) than did the control group. Phospholipases production by Candida strains from OGC patients was lower (51.6 %) than in the control group (61.9 %). Proteinases were detected in 41.9 % and 4.8 % of the yeasts from OGC patients and control group, respectively. Significant differences were found in the serum of OGC patients compared to the control group for IL-2, IL-10, TNF-α, IFN-γ and IL-17. The results of this work suggest increased virulence of yeasts isolated from OGC patients and, that this may interfere with the immune phenotype.