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Candiduria is associated with high morbidity, mortality, and long hospitalization, involving high costs for the healthcare system. The use of increasingly aggressive treatments has prolonged the lives of patients susceptible to candiduria, namely the immunosuppressed, the premature, and the elderly. Our objective was to evaluate the incidence of nosocomial candiduria and the implicated species in hospitalized patients aged over 80 years old from three Spanish centers during 2012 and 2013. Urine samples received from these patients were cultured and analyzed by flow cytometry in search of leukocyturia, hematuria, proteinuria, and microbial nitrate reductase activity. The isolated yeast species were identified microscopically, by germ tube formation in serum, colony morphology after subculture onto CHROMagar Candida (Becton–Dickinson, UK), assimilation of carbon compounds ID32C (bioMérieux, France), matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDITOF) (Bruker Daltonics, Germany) and, in case of inconsistency, by sequencing of the ITS regions of ribosomal DNA (ITS1-5, 8S-ITS2). Susceptibility tests were also performed. The incidence of candiduria in the elderly population was 10.3%. A total of 155 strains of yeasts were isolated. The predominant species was Candida albicans, followed by Candida glabrata and then Candida tropicalis. Several infrequent species were found; among them, the first isolate of candiduria-producing Candida pulcherrima described in the literature. Our finding should raise concerns about the elderly population, which is probably the most important risk group for candiduria in the present moment, and the emergence of unusual yeast species producing candiduria, which are resistant against the commonly used antifungal agents.
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García-Agudo, L., Rodríguez-Iglesias, M. & Carranza-González, R. Nosocomial Candiduria in the Elderly: Microbiological Diagnosis. Mycopathologia 183, 591–596 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-017-0232-7
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