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Candida species isolated from cerebrospinal fluid

Folia microbiologica. 2002 ; 47 (2) : 179-81.

Folia Microbiol (Praha)
ISSN 0015-5632
Source

Language English Country United States Media print

Document type Journal Article

Persistent link https://www.medvik.cz/link/pmid12058398

PubMed 12058398
DOI 10.1007/bf02817678
Knihovny.cz E-resources

MeSH
Candida classification isolation & purification MeSH
Child MeSH
Adult MeSH
Meningitis, Fungal cerebrospinal fluid microbiology MeSH
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal MeSH
Candidiasis cerebrospinal fluid epidemiology microbiology MeSH
Middle Aged MeSH
Humans MeSH
Cerebrospinal Fluid microbiology MeSH
Infant, Newborn MeSH
Risk Factors MeSH
Check Tag
Child MeSH
Adult MeSH
Middle Aged MeSH
Humans MeSH
Male MeSH
Infant, Newborn MeSH
Female MeSH
Publication type
Journal Article MeSH

In the period from November 1998 to June 2001 13 cases of nosocomial meningitis were reported. Candida albicans was isolated from 54% of the patients (7); C. parapsilosis from 23% (3); C. tropicalis from 15% (2) and C. krusei from 8% (1). C. albicans was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of five children with the following diagnoses: nonspecified tumor of the central nervous system, Hodgkin's disease, meningitis, suspect neuroinfection, and sepsis. Examination of CSF allowed us to detect 2 strains of C. albicans from adult patients, one after neurosurgery because of a brain tumor and one with a vascular disease of the brain. C. parapsilosis was found in CSF from two premature children and one child with epilepsy. Two isolates of C. tropicalis were obtained from both blood and the CSF of a child from the neonatal intensive care unit and from a child from pediatric oncology with multiple malignant neoplasms. Only one strain of C. krusei was found in the oral cavity and CSF of a patient after neurosurgery performed after head trauma.

Department of Physiology Faculty of Medicine Safárik University 040 66 Kosice Slovakia

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