Four-year persistence of a single Candida albicans genotype causing bloodstream infections in a surgical ward proven by multilocus sequence typing.
The present study represents the first application of multilocus sequence typing to retrospectively investigate a suspected outbreak of Candida albicans bloodstream infection cases that occurred in the same hospital ward between July 1987 and October 1991. Results demonstrated that eight bloodstream infections were caused by the same strain, endemic in the ward, over a 4-year period.
Viviani
Maria Anna
MA
Istituto di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. marianna.viviani@unimi.it
Cogliati
Massimo
M
Esposto
Maria Carmela
MC
Prigitano
Anna
A
Tortorano
Anna Maria
AM
D002176:Candida albicans / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D004271:DNA, Fungal / Q000032:analysis*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016469:Fungemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology*; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D016533:Mycological Typing Techniques; D010802:Phylogeny; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital
D004271:DNA, Fungal