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MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION AND ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING OF PUCCINIOMYCOTINA RED YEAST CLINICAL ISOLATES FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Bloodstream infections
ITS sequencing
Opportunistic fungi
Rhodotorula
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Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
National Cancer Institute. Clinical Pathology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
National Cancer Institute. Clinical Pathology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases. Mycology Laboratory. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Abstract
Infections caused by Rhodotorula spp. are increasing worldwide. This study identified, through the light of the new taxonomic advances on the subphylum Pucciniomycotina, 16 isolates from blood cultures and compared their antifungal susceptibility on microdilution and gradient diffusion methods. Internal transcriber spacer sequencing identified Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (n = 12), Rhodotorula toruloides (n = 2), Rhodotorula dairenensis (n = 1), and Cystobasidium minutum (n = 1). Amphotericin B was the most effective drug. A good essential agreement was observed on MIC values of amphotericin B and voriconazole determined by the two methods. Therefore, the gradient method is useful for susceptibility tests of R. mucilaginosa against these drugs.
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Antifungal susceptibilityBloodstream infections
ITS sequencing
Opportunistic fungi
Rhodotorula
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