First Two Cases of Fungal Infections Associated with Multi-drug Resistant Yeast, Fereydounia khargensis

The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infectio...

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Autores principales: Tap, Ratna Mohd, Ramli, Nur Yasmin, Sabaratnam, Parameswari, Hashim, Rohaidah, Bakri, Ahmed Rafezzan Ahmed, Bee, Lim Bee, Ginsapu, Stephanie Jane, Ahmad, Rahimah, Razak, Mohd Fuat Abd, Ahmad, Norazah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27010640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0002-y
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Sumario:The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infections associated with F. khargensis. The yeasts were isolated from blood of a HIV-positive patient and pleural fluid of chronic renal failure patient. Amplification and sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer and the large subunit regions confirmed the identity of the isolates. Both isolates showed multi-drug resistance to antifungal agents tested.

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