National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Candida species have been reported from many countries worldwide and a significant morbidity & mortality in immunocompromised individuals and hospitalised patients. The Candida species are now among the four most common causes of hospital associated infections, catheter associated, urinary tract and blood stream infections. This was a cross sectional study in this the clinical samples received in the Microbiology laboratory for routine culture form the source. The study was conducted in the department of Microbiology JSSMC Mysore. A total of 75 isolates of Candia species recovered from urine, sputum, vaginal swab, ear swab and blood culture were used and identified by standard protocol. A total of 75 Candida species were collected from urine (72%), sputum (21%), swabs (2.6%) and Blood (1.3%) of patients. The goal of the study was to show there is an increase in the incidence of Candida non albicans. Majority of the isolates in our study were urine and throat samples, only few isolates were obtained from blood, vaginal swabs and ear swabs. So we obtained sensitivity and specificity of Chrom agar for C. albicans as 100%. As a result it can be concluded that the use of Chrom agar Candida is an easy reliable method for presumptive identification of most of the Candida species especially Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida krusie, Candida parapsilosis and Candida dublineinsis.
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