| fungaemia caused by hansenula anomala--an outbreak in a cancer hospital. | yeasts belonging to the genus hansenula are rarely encountered as the cause of infection in clinical practice. a wide spectrum of infections caused by these fungi can be seen, ranging from asymptomatic fungaemia to severe disease. we describe an outbreak of 24 cases of infection due to h. anomala in an oncological hospital in rio de janeiro, brazil. the median age of the patients was 11 years, of whom 54.2% were female; 91.7% of the hansenula fungaemia occurred in the haematology unit. the most ... | 1997 | 9476487 |
| yeasts associated with the white shrimp penaeus schmitti, sediment, and water of sepetiba bay, rio de janeiro, brasil. | samples were collected in a polluted site with mean fecal coliform counts of the water being 9.0 x 10(2)/100 ml and less polluted areas including commercial fishing areas with fecal coliforms typically below 2.0 x 10(1)/100 ml. yeast populations from the polluted site were 4.6 x 10(2) to 9.2 x 10(3)/g of shrimp intestine, 1.0 x 10(1) to 2.4 x 10(2)/g of sediment and 4.0 x 10(-1) to 4.6 x 10(1)/ml of water, and in the less polluted site 3.0 x 10(1) to 2.3 x 10(2)/g of intestines and 3.0 x 10(-1) ... | 1989 | 2750315 |