title: Epidemiology of an outbreak of Candida endophthalmitis in heroin addicts: identification of possible source of infection by biotyping.
abstract: Biotyping was employed to investigate possible sources of Candida endophthalmitis in heroin addicts. Isolates of Candida albicans recovered from patients and from injection paraphernalia, including lemon juice diluent from lemon-shaped plastic containers, were biotyped. The predominant biotypes were 153, 15 3/7. Similar biotypes were recovered from lemon, mouthwash, mouth swab and vitreous samples.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D002175:Candida / Q000145:classification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004340:Drug Contamination; D009877:Endophthalmitis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D012606:Scotland