| [yeast infections: causative agents and their antifungal resistance in hospitalized pediatric patients and hiv-positive adults]. | candidiasis has increased its frequency over the last decade, particularly among hospitalized patients where it is accompanied with high rates of mortality, and in patients with aids who are predisposed to oropharyngeal or esophageal candidiasis. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of appearance of different yeast species and the resistance profile to current antifungal drugs in hospitalized pediatric patients and adult hiv patients from 5 institutions of buenos aires city and s ... | 1997 | 9229726 |
| phenotypic and genotypic identification of candida dubliniensis from subgingival sites in immunocompetent subjects in argentina. | it is generally recognized that candida dubliniensis is commonly found in immunocompromised patients, such as those with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection, at sites of periodontal disease. since there are no data available for argentina, the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of and to identify c. dubliniensis in periodontal pockets from immunocompetent subjects living in buenos aires, argentina, through a comparison of phenotypic and molecular assays. | 2008 | 18954358 |
| [presumptive identification of candida spp. and other clinically important yeasts: usefulness of brilliance candida agar]. | fungal infections caused by yeasts have increased during the last decades and invasive forms represent a serious problem for human health. candida albicans is the species most frequently isolated from clinical samples. however, other emerging yeast pathogens are increasingly responsible for mycotic infections, and some of them are resistant to some antifungal drugs. consequently, it is necessary to have methods that can provide a rapid presumptive identification at species level. numerous chromo ... | 2010 | 20346288 |
| [epidemiological status of mycoses in the argentine republic]. | we herein report the results of a retrospective nationwide survey on mycoses diagnosed between january and december, 2004. the study included data provided by 72 laboratories located in 19 provinces and in buenos aires city. out of 801,805 microbiological specimens processed that year, only 62,681 (8%) were submitted to mycological studies. a total of 23,600 mycoses cases were diagnosed: 11,107 (47%) superficial mycoses, 10,830 (46%) mucosal candidiasis and 1,663 (7%) deep mycoses. relative freq ... | 2007 | 17585656 |
| [study of acute vulvovaginitis in sexually active adult women, with special reference to candidosis, in patients of the francisco j. muñiz infectious diseases hospital]. | the results of microbiological vaginal secretions samples obtained from 749 women (from july 2001 to july 2002) were studied in the bacteriology unit of the francisco javier muñiz hospital from buenos aires. all patients suffered acute vulvovaginitis were child bearing and sexually active women, 334 of them were hiv-positive. the following are the results of the microbiological studies: lactobacillus spp 50.6%, gardnerella vaginalis 25.6%, candida spp 17.4%, trichomonas vaginalis 5.3%, neisseria ... | 2004 | 15709796 |