PMID: 8586790Nov 1, 1995Paper

An epidemiological study of Candida species infection in cancer patients using genetic fingerprinting and morphotyping

The Journal of Hospital Infection
B O'ConnellC T Keane

Abstract

During a six-week period a cluster of four cases of Candida fungaemia occurred in a mixed haematology/oncology unit of a large Dublin teaching hospital. A study was conducted to determine whether the cluster of cases was caused by a particular strain. Nine patients were studied; five who were colonized with Candida spp. and four who developed Candida fungaemia. Twenty-two clinical isolates of Candida spp. were collected and identified. Three of the patients with fungaemia yielded Candida albicans from blood cultures and C. tropicalis was isolated from the fourth patient. C. albicans isolates were serotyped, morphotyped and analysed by DNA fingerprinting of total cellular DNA using the cloned C. albicans-specific, mid-repeat sequence element 27A as a molecular probe. All C. albicans isolates were of serotype A. Eight distinguishable types were identified by both morphotyping and DNA typing from 19 C. albicans isolates recovered from seven individual patients, although there were several discrepancies. Of three patients from whom two or more isolates of C. albicans were recovered on separate occasions, two yielded recurrent isolates with different morphotype codes. However, in both cases, the recurrent isolates from individual pa...Continue Reading

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