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 |
Background- Recently fungal infections are increased rapidly due to increase antibiotic use and misuse along with increased use of intravascular devices. Especially colonizing yeast like organisms like Candida species are emerging as important fungal pathogen. Aim- Thus this present study focused on isolation and characterisation of Candida species from various clinical isolates. Materials and methods- the present study was conducted in Department of Microbiology, ESI Medical College and Hospital from April 2017 to May 2018. Various clinical specimens included such as, urine, sputum, high vaginal swab, nail, skin and blood. A total of 1,650 specimens were included in this study. Identification and speciation of Candida isolates were done as per the standard Microbiological procedures. Results- Most of the Candida species was isolated from male patients (62.3%) and 37.73% were female patients. Most common age group affected by candidiasis was 21-40 years (28/52.8%) followed by 41-50 years (14/25.9%). Among all these specimens, urine culture yielded more number of Candida isolates (27/50%) followed by sputum (14/25.9%), high vaginal swab (6/11.1%), nail (3/5.5%), skin (2/3.7%) and blood (2/3.7%). Out of 54 isolates, one was Cryptococcus spp and rest of the isolates were Candida spp. Among 53 Candida species, 32 were isolated as Candida albicans (60.4%), 8 were Candida tropicalis (15.09%), 6 were Candida krusei (11.3%) and 4 were Candida glabrata (7.5%) and 3 were Candida parapsilosis (5.7%). Conclusion- Identification and characterisation has to be done for all Candida isolates along with clinical correlation.
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