Yeast-like microorganisms in eye infections

Dorko, Erik; Pilipčinec, E.; Mahel, M; Viragova, Sara; I, Bracoková; Dorko, F; Švický, E.; Danko, Ján; Holoda, E.; Ondrašovič, M.; Tkáčiková, Ľudmila

doi:10.1007/bf02873594

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“…Due to the paucity of patients with C. parapsilosis, endophthalmitis therapy has not been standardized. Of 11 patients with eye infections found in corneal smears, conjunctival swabs, and vitreous fluid, C. parapsilosis caused endophthalmitis only once, while five strains of C. albicans were isolated (73). In 2003, a 39-year-old woman who underwent keratoprosthesis surgery developed C. parapsilosis endophthalmitis 2 years postoperatively, which was successfully treated with oral fluconazole and topical amphotericin (19).…”

Section: Ocular Infectionsmentioning

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Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen

2008

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SUMMARY Candida parapsilosis is an emerging major human pathogen that has dramatically increased in significance and prevalence over the past 2 decades, such that C. parapsilosis is now one of the leading causes of invasive candidal disease. Individuals at the highest risk for severe infection include neonates and patients in intensive care units. C. parapsilosis infections are especially associated with hyperalimentation solutions, prosthetic devices, and indwelling catheters, as well as the nosocomial spread of disease through the hands of health care workers. Factors involved in disease pathogenesis include the secretion of hydrolytic enzymes, adhesion to prosthetics, and biofilm formation. New molecular genetic tools are providing additional and much-needed information regarding C. parapsilosis virulence. The emerging information will provide a deeper understanding of C. parapsilosis pathogenesis and facilitate the development of new therapeutic approaches for treating C. parapsilosis infections.

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Section: Ocular Infectionsmentioning

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Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen

2008

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Fungal diseases of the respiratory tract

2002

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The proportion of Candida and non-Candida species in the clinical material from patients with respiratory-tract diseases was determined. C. albicans was isolated in 102 cases. An additional 89 strains of yeasts, isolated in association with respiratory diseases, belonged to 10 non-albicans Candida spp. and Cryptococcus spp. The prevailing species, which occurred in 47 cases, was C. parapsilosis. C. tropicalis, C. glabrata, and C. guilliermondii were isolated in 12, 10, and 9 cases, respectively. Four strains of C. krusei and three strains of C. lusitaniae and one strain each of C. freyschussii, C. robusta, C. zeylanoides, and Cryptococcus neoformans were also isolated.

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Causative agents of nosocomial mycoses

Tomsíková

2002

Folia Microbiol

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In the last few years mycoses have been caused by fungi formerly considered to be harmless for humans. They cause diseases of plants and insects; some of them are also used in the industry. They are now usually called "emerging fungi". We investigated this flora with respect to their potential to cause infections in hospitals. These fungi are present in the air, on medical objects and instrumentation, in the respiratory tract and on the hands of hospital staff; other sources have been identified in the use of iatrogenic methods. Mycotic diseases, their risk factors, their clinical pictures, and spectra of agents were analyzed in 1990-2000; the results were compared with data in the literature. Transplantations were the most frequent risk factors, fungemia and abscess the most frequent clinical picture and filamentous fungi (genera Absidia, Acremonium, Alternaria, Apophysomyces, Aspergillus, Bipolaris, Cladophialophora, Cunninghamella, Exserohilum, Fusarium, Chaetomium, Chrysosporium, Lecythophora, Ochroconis, Paecilomyces, Pythium, Rhizopus, Scedosporium, Scopulariopsis) were the most frequent agents of nosocomial infections. These filamentous fungi and also some yeasts (genera Candida, Cryptococcus, Trichosporon) bring about different clinical syndromes in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients.

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Yeast-like microorganisms in eye infections

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen

Candida parapsilosis, an Emerging Fungal Pathogen

Fungal diseases of the respiratory tract

Causative agents of nosocomial mycoses

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