Prospective Study of Candida Species in Patients at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
AUTOR(ES)
Safdar, Amar
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Since most nosocomial systemic yeast infections arise from the endogenous flora of the patient, we prospectively evaluated the species stratification and antifungal susceptibility profile of Candida spp. associated with heavy colonization and systemic infection in patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. A total of 349 Candida isolates were obtained from 223 patients during the later half of 1998. Cancer was the most common underlying disease, occurring in 91% of the patients, including 61.8% with organ and 23.7% with hematological malignancies; 4.4% of the patients had AIDS. Candida albicans was the predominant species (67.3%); among 114 non-albicans Candida spp., C. glabrata (45.6%) was the most frequent, followed by C. tropicalis (18.4%), C. parapsilosis (16.6%), and C. krusei (9.6%). The overall resistance to triazole-based agents among all yeast isolates was 9.4 and 10.8% for fluconazole and itraconazole, respectively. A total of 5% of C. albicans strains were resistant to triazole antifungals, whereas 30.8 and 46.2% of C. glabrata strains were resistant to fluconazole (MIC ≥ 64 μg/ml) and itraconazole (MIC ≥ 1 μg/ml), respectively. A significant association was observed between prior treatment with triazole and isolation of fluconazole-resistant C. albicans (P = 0.005, OR 36), although this relationship was not seen in C. glabrata isolates (P = 0.4). This study reinforces the importance of periodic, prospective surveillance of clinical fungal isolates to determine appropriate prophylactic, empiric, and preemptive antifungal therapy for the highly susceptible patient population.
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