[Gas chromatography in express diagnosis of candidiasis and monitoring of antifungal therapy efficacy by D-arabinitol and mannose levels in pediatric patients].

Seventy three children (40 blood and 43 liquor specimens) were examined with the use of gas chromatography (GC) to detect background concentrations of Candida metabolites. The criterium of the children enrollment to the control group was the absence of the clinical and laboratory signs of the fungal infection. The normal contents of the fungus metabolites were considered to be 0.

[Comparative analysis of metabolites of Candida albicans and other clinically important fungi using gas chromatography].

Qualitative and quantitative compositions of metabolites of the fungi belonging to the genera Candida, Cryptococcus, Geotrichum, Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarlum, Actinomyces, Sporotrichum and Alternaria were studied. It was shown that the composition of carbohydrates, alcohols, volatile and nonvolatile fatty acids and amines after the fungi cultivation was specific of every genus. The in vitro investigation of the entire spectra of the metabolites such as monosugars, alcohols, volatile and nonvolatile acids and amines for the determination of the markers specific of the genus Candida demonstrated that for the indication of C.

[Analysis of higher fatty acids of fungi of the genus Candida using gas chromatography].

The fatty acid composition of the cell biomass of 136 strains of 9 species belonging to the genus Candida was investigated. The cell walls were found to contain the following fatty acids: myristic, hexadecenoic, palmitic, heptadecanoic, linoleic, linolenic, stearic, lignocerinic and oleic. Acids with 18 carbon atoms in the chain i.

[The identification of fungi by their cellular monosaccharides using gas-liquid chromatography].

The qualitative composition and percent ratio of monosugars in the cell biomass of 101 strains of 5 Candida species and 7 strains of Torulopsis species were determined. It was shown that the major carbohydrate components of the cell biomass of all the Candida species were arabinitol, mannose, fructose, galactose, glucose, sugar alcohol (mannitol) and myoisonitol. C.