Epidemiology of Candidemia: Three-Year Results from a Croatian Tertiary Care Hospital.

Invasive candidosis is the most common invasive fungal infection in hospitalized patients and is associated with a high mortality rate. This is the first study from a Croatian tertiary care hospital describing epidemiology, risk factors and species distribution in patients with candidemia. A three-year retrospective observational study, from 2018 to 2020, was performed at the University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.

Influence of media and temperature on gliotoxin production in Aspergillus fumigatus strains.

Gliotoxin is a secondary metabolite of the epipolythiodioxopiperazine family with biologically active internal disulfide bridge. It is produced by many fungal species, including Aspergillus fumigatus and A. terreus.

[Risk factors for invasive fungal infections during intensive chemotherapy of acute leukemia--retrospective study].

Aim: The incidence, outcome and risk factors for developing invasive fungal infection were retrospectively analyzed in 150 patients with acute leukemia during intensive cytostatic therapy.

Patients And Methods: Patients with and without the diagnosis of fungal infection were compared according to age, sex, diagnosis, stage of disease, type of therapy, antimicrobial prophylaxis, duration of febrile episodes, duration of antimicrobial therapy, duration of antifungal therapy, chest x-ray findings, results of surveillance cultures for fungal species isolation, clinical diagnosis at discharge from hospital, and autopsy findings. Clinical findings in patients with confirmed fungal infection on autopsy were analyzed separately.

Hansenula anomala outbreak at a surgical intensive care unit: a search for risk factors.

During a 5-month period, Hansenula anomala (H. anomala), an opportunistic fungus, caused an outbreak of infections in eight adult patients treated at a surgical intensive care unit (ICU). The source of the infections and route of transmission could not be identified.

[Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as a cause of hospital infections--typing of clinical isolates using pulsed field gel electrophoresis] ].

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) has been recognised now as an important cause of hospital infections. As S.