Detalhes do Documento

Insights into Candida tropicalis nosocomial infections and virulence factors

Autor(es): Negri, M. ; Silva, Sónia Carina ; Henriques, Mariana ; Oliveira, Rosário

Data: 2012

Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/22455

Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho

Projeto/bolsa: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876-PPCDTI/68393/PT ;

Assunto(s): Candida tropicalis; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Virulence factors; Candiduria; Candidemia; Candiduria9; Science & Technology


Descrição

Candida tropicalis is considered the first or the second non-Candida albicans Candida (NCAC) species most frequently isolated from candidosis, mainly in patients admitted in intensive care units (ICUs), especially with cancer, requiring prolonged catheterization, or receiving broad-spectrum antibiotics. The proportion of candiduria and candidemia caused by C. tropicalis varies widely with geographical area and patient group. Actually, in certain countries, C. tropicalis is more prevalent, even compared with C. albicans or other NCAC species. Although prophylactic treatments with fluconazole cause a decrease in the frequency of candidosis caused by C. tropicalis, it is increasingly showing a moderate level of fluconazole resistance. The propensity of C. tropicalis for dissemination and the high mortality associated with its infections might be strongly related to the potential of virulence factors exhibited by this species, such as adhesion to different host surfaces, biofilm formation, infection and dissemination, and enzymes secretion. Therefore, the aim of this review is to outline the present knowledge on all the above-mentioned C. tropicalis virulence traits.

The authors acknowledge Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), Brazil, for supporting Melyssa Negri (BEX 4642/06-6) and Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, for supporting Sonia Silva (SFRH/BPD/71076/2010), and European Community fund FEDER, trough Program COMPETE under the Project FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-007025 (PTDC/AMB/68393/2006) is gratefully acknowledged.

Tipo de Documento Artigo científico
Idioma Inglês
Contribuidor(es) Universidade do Minho
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