Produção de biofilme em isolados de Candida spp do Hospital das Clínicas de Botucatu, UNESP

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Ariane Cristina Mendes de Oliveira Bruder [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/108424
• topic: Candida albicans; Biofilme; Antimicóticos; Infeccão hospitalar

Over the last decade, there have been important changes in the epidemiology of Candida infections and antifungal agents used to treat these infections. In recent years, Candida species have emerged as important causes of invasive infections mainly among immunocompromised patients. The principal aim of this study was to evaluate the epidemiology of infectious Candida species isolated in our hospital and accordingly supply data for hospital infection control The other aims were to compare the traditional, automated and molecular methods used to identify Candida isolates to the species level current available in the Clinical Hospital of the Boucatu Medical School, UNESP, to evaluate the drug susceptibility as well as to biofilm production by this yeasts and to characterize, by molecular tools, several genes involved in biofilm production of C. albicans and C. parapsilosis and the use of group I introns to genotype the species C. albicans. A total of 196 Candida strains that were isolated from blood specimens of hospitalized patients were included in the study. The most common Candida species identified were C. albicans (39,3-44,4%) and C. parapsilosis (33,2-42,3%). According to the insertion of group I introns, the genotype A of C. albicans were the most frequent (74%). The evaluation of traditional phenotypic methods, the automated and some molecular revealed good agreement (>80%) and since both phenotypic methods were simple and cost effective and automated were few time-consuming when compared to molecular techniques, they should be considered in the routine lab identification of Candida species. The chromogenic media must be employed to avoid misinterpretations, independently of the method used. Antifungal susceptibility testing was performed by the reference microdilution method (CLSI) and all strains showed good susceptible against the drugs evaluated (fluconazole, voriconazole, anidulafungin and ...