Pseudozyma sp.: colonizador de vías respiratorias en enfermos críticos

Pseudozyma aphidis fungemia after abdominal surgery: First adult case

“…However Gil et al have previously described respiratory colonization by Pseudozyma spp. without species identification [12] . Thirty strains were isolated from respiratory samples between 1997 and 2001.…”

“…P. aphidis infections might be underdiagnosed, due to the fact that, at the moment, only sequencing allows an accurate identification of this yeast. Misidentifications as Cryptococcus or Trichosporon species have been described with the VITEK 2 (bioMérieux), The ID32C® (bioMérieux), the RapID Yeast Plus® (Remel) systems [8,12] . For our isolate, mass spectrometry analysis suggested P. aphidis but with a low score, which is most likely due to an insufficient number of spectra in the databank, and the API 32C identification algorithm does not include this species in its databank.…”