The incidence of hospital fungal infections--yeast fungaemia.
In order to determine the incidence and the causative agents of fungaemia, a survey was undertaken of blood culture specimens received from the Bloemfontein academic hospitals. Over a period of 1 year, 5,017 successive blood cultures were examined; 1,030 (20.5%) had growth of which 106 (2.1%) yielded yeasts. Candida albicans (42%), C. tropicalis (26%) and C. parapsilosis (20%) were the species most frequently isolated. Fungaemia occurred most often after broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy and abdominal disorders.
Badenhorst
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Department of Medical Microbiology, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
Botha
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van Rensburg
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D001769:Blood / Q000382:microbiology*; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005848:Geotrichum / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D009181:Mycoses / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D010843:Pichia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D015003:Yeasts / Q000302:isolation & purification*