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Characteristics of fungemia in a peruvian referral center: 5-year retrospective analysis

Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública, 2020
Retrospective descriptive study carried out to determine the characteristics of fungemia in 285 cancer patients hospitalized from 2012 to 2016 at the Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas (INEN).
Freddy Villanueva, Janet Veliz, Karol Canasa Calvo, Esther Bellido, Shirley Martell, Sherly Ortega, Ines Cajamarca   +6 more
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A Rare Case of Urinary Tract Fungal Ball Leading to Fungemia and Bilateral Chorioretinitis

Case Reports in Urology, 2020
Background. Fungemia due to obstructive urinary tract fungal ball is exceedingly rare. These patients often have multiple predisposing conditions, including diabetes or antimicrobial exposure. While candiduria can be relatively common in this population,
Christopher Ferari, Chad Crigger, Chad Morley   +2 more
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Risk factors for ophthalmologic involvement and ocular findings in patients diagnosed with fungemia in a high-complexity hospital in the city of Medellín, Colombia

Annals of Medicine, 2022
Purpose To describe the demographic clinical characteristics and to identify the risk factors of patients diagnosed with fungemia and secondary intraocular involvement.Methods Retrospective cohort of 97 patients diagnosed with fungemia and with or ...
Marcos Restrepo Arango, Juan Camilo Cadavid Usuga, Luis Fernando Velazquez Ossa, Jorge Hernando Donado Gómez, Laura Nataly Higuita Duque, Juan Pedro Neira Gomez   +5 more
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Role of serum (1,3)-β-d-glucan assay in early diagnosis of invasive fungal infections in a neonatal intensive care unit

Jornal de Pediatria, 2018
Objectives: To study the microbiological pattern of late onset neonatal sepsis cultures and to assess the diagnostic performance of serum (1,3)-β-d-glucan level for early diagnosis of invasive fungemia in high-risk infants admitted to a neonatal ...
Abd Elazeez Shabaan, Lobna Mahmoud Elbaz, Wafaa M. El-Emshaty, Basma Shouman   +3 more
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In house method for rapid identification of fungi from fungus-positive bottles by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry in patients with bloodstream infection [PDF]

Клиническая микробиология и антимикробная химиотерапия, 2022
Objective. To present the results of using in-house method for rapid identification of fungi from funguspositive bottles with routine conventional culture-based identification by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass ...
Malchikova A.O., Klyasova G.A.
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Kodamaea ohmeri fungemia in severe burn: Case study and literature review

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018
Kodamaea ohmeri is a relatively rare yeast isolated form clinical specimens, and it is known to be a causative fungus of severe invasive infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts. Herein, we describe fungemia due to K.
Ayaka Tashiro, Takahito Nei, Ryoji Sugimoto, Akiko Watanabe, Jun Hagiwara, Toru Takiguchi, Hiroyuki Yokota, Katsuhiko Kamei   +7 more
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae fungemia due to an unexpected source in the pediatric intensive care unit

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2022
Background. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is one of the microorganisms commonly used as a probiotic. Although it is primarily known as non-pathogenic, it may cause fungemia, particularly in immunocompromised patients or children with a history of long ...
Emrah Gün, Halil Özdemir, Dilara Besli Çelik, Edin Botan, Tanıl Kendirli   +4 more
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Two different clones of Candida pelliculosa bloodstream infection in a tertiary neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2021
Introduction: Fungemia in preterm infants results in high mortality and morbidity. The genotypes, drug susceptibilities of Candida pelliculosa strains, and clinical features of two outbreaks of neonatal candidemia caused by C. pelliculosa were analyzed,
Yulan Yang, Weiyuan Wu, Lu Ding, Lin Yang, Jinzhen Su, Benqing Wu   +5 more
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Cryptococcus laurentii Fungemia

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2013
In the last few years there has been an increasing incidence of infection due to non-neoformans Cryptococcus spp. especially in immunocompromised host. Cryptococcus laurentii is a non-neoformans Cryptococcus which has rarely been known to cause bacteremia and pulmonary infection in humans. Here we report a case of fungemia due to Cryptococcus laurentii.
P, Banerjee, M, Haider, V, Trehan, B, Mishra, A, Thakur, V, Dogra, P, Loomba   +6 more
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Update on detection of bacteremia and fungemia [PDF]

Clinical Microbiology Reviews, 1997
The presence of microorganisms in a patient's blood is a critical determinant of the severity of the patient's illness. Equally important, the laboratory isolation and identification of a microorganism present in blood determine the etiologic agent of infection, especially when the site of infection is localized and difficult to access.
L G, Reimer, M L, Wilson, M P, Weinstein
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