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- * Fereydounia khargensis, a yeast first identified in 2014, has now been associated with human infections for the first time.
- * Two cases involved HIV-positive and chronic renal failure patients, with the yeast showing multi-drug resistance to antifungal treatments.
Article Abstract
The number of new fungal pathogens is increasing due to growing population of immunocompromised patients and advanced identification techniques. Fereydounia khargensis is a yeast and was first described in 2014 from environmental samples. As far as we know, this is the first report of human infections associated with F. khargensis. The yeasts were isolated from blood of a HIV-positive patient and pleural fluid of chronic renal failure patient. Amplification and sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer and the large subunit regions confirmed the identity of the isolates. Both isolates showed multi-drug resistance to antifungal agents tested.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4937094 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11046-016-0002-y | DOI Listing |
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