Candida Infections
Anidulafungin and its role in candida infections
... Abstract: Candida infections continue to play a significant role not only in critically ill and immunocompromised patients but also in non-compromised ...fungal infections in the United States has ...
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Mannan antigenemia in the diagnosis of invasive Candida infections
... infections or in 99% of 234 patients in other control groups. Mannan antibodies were almost universally present in both candidiasis and control groups. In four patients with systemic candidiasis, an early period ...
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SANTALUM ALBUM: CLINICAL ASPECTS FOR TREATMENT OF CANDIDA INFECTIONS
... The purification and identification of the active compounds were done from the acetonic extracts of Santalum album (bark) showed best anticandidal activity against all the tested Candida pathogens. The ...
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Enzyme immunoassays for invasive Candida infections: reactivity of somatic antigens of Candida albicans
... Whereas all tests were able to discriminate between patients with invasive candidosis n = 27 and normal healthy volunteers n = 167, as proved by graphic marker analysis, the selective an[r] ...
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CANDIDA INFECTIONS IN CHILDREN WITH NEOPLASTIC DISEASE
... of the total control group were associated! with d!iabetes melhitus, cystic fibrosis of thie. pancreas, nephrotic synd!rome, and the nhieumnatic disease “group. Time increased! rate in d[r] ...
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Economic considerations of antifungal prophylaxis in patients undergoing surgical procedures
... nosocomial infections, with an incidence that has increased significantly in recent years, especially among critically ill patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) ...of Candida infections in ...
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The Incidence of Different Candida Albicans Infections in Durres Area
... of Candida infections are mucosal, but in severe cases, the fungus can penetrate through epithelial layers into deeper tissues, reach the blood stream and, from there, may cause life-threatening systemic ...
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Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Fast and Reliable Identification of Clinical Yeast Isolates
... as Candida, Cryptococcus, and Aspergil- lus ...ening infections of immunocompromised hosts, including patients receiving immunosuppressive ...tunistic Candida infections per year worldwide, ...
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Pharmacology and metabolism of anidulafungin, caspofungin and micafungin in the treatment of invasive candidosis - review of the literature
... invasive Candida infections / candidaemia suggest that the clinical outcome of patients treated with ei- ther drug may be very ...invasive Candida infections, Candida oesophagitis and ...
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In silico analysis of plant phytochemicals against secreted aspartic proteinase enzyme of Candida albicans
... Candida albicans, a polymorphic fungal species of human microflora, is pathogenic and known to cause immense damage to the host organism which includes biofilm formation, oral and skin infections in immune ...
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Species distribution and susceptibility profile of Candida species in a Brazilian public tertiary hospital
... The epidemiology of Candida infections has been exten- sively studied in North America and Europe [11], where large surveillance programs exist. In Latin America, these data are limited [2], with some ...
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Antifungal Activity and Synergism with Azoles of Polish Propolis
... susceptibility and trailing growth effect of clinical isolates of Candida species to azole drugs. Medical importance of biofilms in Candida infections[r] ...
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Emerging Multidrug Resistant Candida duobushaemulonii Infections in Panama Hospitals: Importance of Laboratory Surveillance and Accurate Identification
... rare Candida species in a period of 7 months, about half of them from a single medical institution in Panama City, suggesting the possibility of health care transmission, although we did not have information on ...
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Comparative Evaluation of the Bruker Biotyper and Vitek MS Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization–Time Of Flight (MALDI TOF) Mass Spectrometry Systems for Identification of Yeasts of Medical Importance
... fication for the most common yeasts isolated in clinical settings. As a matter of fact, the 78 isolates (50.3% of Candida-related iso- lates) belonging to the most common Candida species with po- tentially ...
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Identification of Pathogenic Rare Yeast Species in Clinical Samples: Comparison between Phenotypical and Molecular Methods
... Although Candida and Aspergillus species are the most com- mon causes of invasive fungal infection (IFI) in debilitated individuals, almost all yeasts are potential pathogens, causing great morbidity and mortality ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of Candida QuickFISH BC for Identification of Candida Species Directly from Blood Culture Bottles
... the Candida QuickFISH BC assay include the detection of only three yeast species (although this encompasses the most commonly encountered Candida species), the relatively high cost of the assay, and the ...
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Rapid identification of Candida species by DNA fingerprinting with PCR
... different Candida species and 8 other spe- cies obtained with primers T3B and ...genus Candida, and all species could be clearly distin- guished by their PCR ...different Candida species were ...
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Rapid Identification of Pathogenic Fungi Directly from Cultures by Using Multiplex PCR
... as Candida stellatoidea, which we deemed a variant of ...of Candida (181 isolates), 4 species of Aspergillus (38 isolates), 3 zygomycetous species (9 isolates), and 3 other yeast species: ...
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Multicenter Evaluation of the New VITEK 2 Advanced Colorimetric Yeast Identification Card
... era: Candida, Cryptococcus, Geotrichum, Kloeckera, Kodamaea, Malassezia, Pichia, Rhodotorula, Saccharomyces, Sporobolomyces, Stephanoascus, Trichosporon, and ...
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Rapid Identification of Candida Species with Species Specific DNA Probes
... This genotype-based identification method has revealed the need for further taxonomic resolution of some species, for ex- ample, C. famata (teleomorph form, D. hansenii). Although the identities of seven C. famata ...
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