| candida tropicalis in a neonatal intensive care unit: epidemiologic and molecular analysis of an outbreak of infection with an uncommon neonatal pathogen. | from june to july 1998, two episodes of candida tropicalis fungemia occurred in the aristotle university neonatal intensive care unit (icu). to investigate this uncommon event, a prospective study of fungal colonization and infection was conducted. from december 1998 to december 1999, surveillance cultures of the oral cavities and perinea of the 593 of the 781 neonates admitted to the neonatal icu who were expected to stay for >7 days were performed. potential environmental reservoirs and possib ... | 2003 | 12574275 |
| pseudoepidemic of urinary tract infections due to trichosporon beigelii. | during the period april, 1985 to march, 1986, trichosporon beigelii was isolated from the urine of 15 intensive care unit patients. all of these patients had foley catheters in place at the time of t beigelii isolation. none of them had urinary tract infections on admission, and it was initially felt that this organism was a source of infection in these critically ill individuals. subsequent investigation revealed this to be a pseudoepidemic secondary to contamination of the urinary catheter dra ... | 1989 | 2663974 |
| trichosporonosis in patients with neoplastic disease. | trichosporonosis due to trichosporon beigelii or t. capitatum is an infrequent but potentially fatal invasive fungal infection in cancer patients. we studied epidemiologic, clinical, pathologic, and microbiologic features of this infection during a 7-year period at the university of maryland cancer center. fifteen patients with involvement by trichosporon were identified: 5 were infected, 5 were possibly infected, and 5 were colonized but not infected by trichosporon. four of the infected patien ... | 1986 | 3523114 |