Artículo original Aislamiento de Candida spp. en ambiente y personal que labora en una unidad de cuidados intensivos (original) (raw)

2014

Abstract

Nosocomial infection by Candida species are an important cause of morbidity and mortality, especially in seriously ill patients, and it is important to establish the infection source in hospital environments. The purpose of this study was to isolate and identify Candida species in medical equipments, furniture, and hands of staff working in intensive care units and evaluate their susceptibility to fluconazole and voriconazole. Samples were obtained with sterile swabs humidified with brain-heart broth supplemented with chloramphenicol. Identification was done through growth characteristics in chromogenic agar and by conventional methods; fluconazol and voriconazole susceptibility was evaluated by the disk diffusion method (CLSI M44-A). Twenty-six (68.4%) of the isolates were obtained from furniture and medical equipments and 12 (31.6%) from the hands of the staff. The most frequent species was C. parapsilosis (55.4%), followed by C. tropicalis, C. famata, C. glabrata and C. guillierm...

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