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Transient fungaemia due to Candida pelliculosa in a patient with AIDS
R Salesa1, A Burgos, C Fernandez-Mazarrasa
1Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander.
Mycoses
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
Candida pelliculosa Redaelli (syn. Hansenula anomala) was isolated from blood cultures of a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The transient candidaemia was apparently associated with intravenous drug addiction. The isolate was identified by standard methods such as API 20 C Aux and 16 discs carbon auxanogram. The isolate was sensitive to amphotericin B, 5-fluorocytosine and ketoconazole. This organism adds to the growing list of Candida species associated with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.