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Nosocomial Fungal Infections In A Teaching Hospital In Turkey: Identification Of The Pathogens And Their Antifungal Susceptibility Patterns, Duygu Findik, İnci̇ Tuncer
Nosocomial Fungal Infections In A Teaching Hospital In Turkey: Identification Of The Pathogens And Their Antifungal Susceptibility Patterns, Duygu Findik, İnci̇ Tuncer
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences
From January 1999 through April 2000, 208 Candida strains were obtained from hospitalized patients with nosocomial infection. Most of the species were isolated from urine (77.8%) followed by oropharynx (8.2%), blood stream (6.1%), drain (6.1%), peritoneum (0.9%) and cerebrospinal fluid specimens (0.9%). The distribution of the species obtained was Candida albicans (75.4%), C. glabrata (8.2%), C. tropicalis (4.8%), C. kefyr (3.4%), C. parapsilosis (2.5%), C. lusitaniae (1.9%), C. famata (1.4%), C. krusei (1.4%), and C. guilliermondii (1%). The antifungal susceptibility of the isolates to 5-fluorocytosine (5FCU), amphotericin B (AMP), nystatin (NYS), econazole (ECO), miconazole (MIC) and ketoconazole (KET) was tested …