ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Research Article | Open Access
Aditi Pradeep Warghade, Gargi Mudey, Supriya Meshram, Swati Kombe and Dipika Shaw
Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha, Maharashtra, India.
Article Number: 8743 | © The Author(s). 2023
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2023;17(3):1880-1886. https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.17.3.53
Received: 02 June 2023 | Accepted: 21 August 2023 | Published online: 03 September 2023
Issue online: September 2023
Abstract

Fungi infections are becoming more prevalent and burdensome on a global scale leading to an important concern for immunocompromised patients. Hospitals often become infected with serious, invasive Candida infections. Higher frequency of Non-albicans Candida (NAC) species are found in the hospital setting, and some of these fungi can become opportunistic. Pathogens after a change in the host environment trigger them to move from a commensal to a pathogenic phase. Various clinical symptoms of Candida species, which are common human commensals, range from mucocutaneous overgrowth to bloodstream infections. In many hospitals, phenotypic methods are still considered the gold standard method for identification. Among the 112 isolates, Candida albicans (n=47; 52.64%) was noted as a significant etiology isolated from clinical samples. Further, C. albicans accounted the principal etiology in urine (n=28; 31.36%), and vaginal swab (n=13; 14.56%), followed by C. tropicalis (urine: n=15; 16.8% and vaginal swab: n=5; 5.6%). In blood C. pelliculosa (n=14; 15.68%) was found to be predominant followed by C. tropicalis (n=11; 12.32%). Antifungal susceptibility pattern was performed for (n=51) samples by VITEK AST and 100% susceptibility (voriconazole, and micafungin) was recorded in C. tropicalis and C. albicans. Whereas, fluconazole resistance was observed in C. tropicalis (n=3; 15%), and C. pelliculosa (n=1; 11.11%) and amphotericin B resistance in C. tropicalis (n=1; 5%) and C. albicans (n=1; 9.1%).

Keywords

Candida, Identification, Conventional, Antifungal

Article Metrics

Article View: 428

Share This Article

© The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.