Publications by authors named "Teresa C T Sukiennik"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the mortality and prognostic factors related to candidemia in kidney transplant recipients (KTR) across hospitals in Brazil, Spain, and Italy from 2010 to 2020.
- A total of 93 KTRs were analyzed, showing a higher mortality rate within 14 days post-candidemia diagnosis, particularly in Brazilian patients, and revealed that factors like candida colonization and hypotension increased mortality risks.
- Echinocandin treatment was linked to better survival rates, but nearly half of the patients experienced graft loss within 90 days, with a notably higher rate in Brazil compared to Europe.
Objectives: Candida tropicalis is one of the three most frequent species causing candidaemia in Latin America. Despite the high prevalence of C. tropicalis in candidaemia cases in Brazil, little is known about the trends in fluconazole susceptibility over time.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among healthcare professionals working in hospital emergencies during the first-wave peak in 2020 in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
July 2022
Objectives: Carbapenemase-producing (CP-Kp) is a major cause of infections in transplanted patients and has been associated with high mortality rates in this group. There is a lack of information about the Brazilian structure population of CP-Kp isolated from transplanted patients. By whole-genome sequencing (WGS), we analyzed phylogeny, resistome, virulome of CP-Kp isolates, and the structure of plasmids encoding and genes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground & Aims: An increased frequency of infections by multiresistant bacteria has been described in hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the bacterial resistance profile in cirrhotic patients.
Methods: This is a retrospective observational study.
Background: Galactomannan (GM) detection in serum samples has been used to diagnose invasive aspergillosis (IA). Limited sensitivity has been observed in lung transplant recipients, for whom bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) testing has been advocated. Because airway colonization with Aspergillus species occurs frequently in these patients, false-positive GM results have been reported if the cutoff validated for sera is used (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPiperacillin-tazobactam is a broad spectrum antimicrobial agent that can cause false-positive results in the commercial Platelia Aspergillus EIA test. So far, no study has been performed in Latin America to evaluate the clinical implication of this finding. Here we studied the potential for galactomannan detection in piperacillin-tazobactam batches commercialized in the Brazilian market.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report an outbreak of Pichia anomala fungemia that occurred in a Brazilian pediatric intensive care unit (ICU) from October 2002 to January 2004.
Design: Unmatched case-control study.
Methods: We randomly selected four control-patients for each case-patient from a list of all patients admitted to the ICU for at least 48 hours during the outbreak.