Renato K. G. de Almeida

Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

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João Nóbrega de Almeida

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Flávia Rossi

Universidade de São Paulo

Gil Benard

Universidade de São Paulo

Viviane F. Gimenes

Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

Gilda Maria Bárbaro Del Negro

Universidade de São Paulo

Sílvia Vidal Campos

Universidade de São Paulo

Rafaella C. Grenfell

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Luciana Thomaz

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Adriana Lopes Motta

Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

Danilo Yamamoto Thomaz

Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo

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Instituto de Medicina Tropical

Universidade Federal de São Paulo

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Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

Hôpital Saint-Antoine

Sorbonne Université

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Candida blankii: an emergent opportunistic yeast with reduced susceptibility to antifungals

Emerging Microbes & Infections (2018)

João Nóbrega de Almeida Sílvia Vidal Campos Danilo Yamamoto Thomaz Luciana Thomaz Renato K. G. de Almeida

In 1968, Buckley and van Uden described the non-fermenting yeast Candida blankii (C. blankii) found in the organs of a mink1. Until recently, this microorganism had only been the subject of biotech...

Candida auris

10.1038/s41426-017-0015-8

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Candida blankii: an emergent opportunistic yeast with reduced susceptibility to antifungals

Figshare (2019)

João Nóbrega de Almeida Sílvia Vidal Campos Danilo Yamamoto Thomaz Luciana Thomaz Renato K. G. de Almeida

Candida blankii: an emergent opportunistic yeast with reduced susceptibility to antifungals

10.6084/m9.figshare.7936964

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Evaluating and Improving Vitek MS for Identification of Clinically Relevant Species of Trichosporon and the Closely Related Genera Cutaneotrichosporon and Apiotrichum

Journal of Clinical Microbiology (2017)

João Nóbrega de Almeida Viviane M. Favero Gimenes Elaine Cristina Francisco Lumena Pereira Machado Siqueira Renato K. G. de Almeida

Trichosporon species are relevant etiologic agents of hospital-acquired infections. High mortality rates are attributed to Trichosporon deep-seated infections in immunocompromised individuals, making fast and accurate species identification relevant for hastening the discovery of best-targeted therapy. Recently, Trichosporon taxonomy has been reassessed, and three genera have been proposed for the pathogenic species: Trichosporon, Cutaneotrichosporon, and Apiotrichum Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has replaced old phenotypic methods for microorganism identification in clinical laboratories, but spectral profile databases have to be evaluated and improved for optimal species identification performance. Vitek MS (bioMérieux) is one of the commercially available MALDI-TOF MS platforms for pathogen identification, and its spectral profile databases remain poorly evaluated for Trichosporon, Cutaneotrichosporon, and Apiotrichum species identification. We herein evaluated and improved Vitek MS for the identification of the main clinical relevant species of Trichosporon, Cutaneotrichosporon, and Apiotrichum using a large set of strains and isolates belonging to different yeast collections in Brazil and France.

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10.1128/jcm.00461-17

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