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Aetiology and Laboratory Diagnosis
Published in Raimo E Suhonen, Rodney P R Dawber, David H Ellis, Fungal Infections of the Skin, Hair and Nails, 2020
Raimo E Suhonen, Rodney P R Dawber, David H Ellis
Candida lusitaniae has been isolated from several cases of disseminate candidiasis, including septicaemia and pyelonephritis. It has also been reported to colonise the human respiratory, gastrointestinal and urinary tracts and many strains have proven to be resistant to amphotericin B. C. lusitaniae was first isolated from the alimentary tract of warm-blooded animals and environmental isolations have been made from cornmeal, citrus peel, fruit juices and milk from cows with mastitis.
Genital candidiasis
Published in Shiv Shanker Pareek, The Pictorial Atlas of Common Genito-Urinary Medicine, 2018
Candidiasis is a yeast fungal infection which can affect any part of the body, particularly warm, moist areas such as the vagina, mouth and armpits. Candida is always present on the body and certain physiological factors cause the fungus to flourish and cause infection. There are more than 150 species of Candida including: Candida albicans.Candida tropicalis.Candida glabrata.Candida krusei.Candida parapsilosis.Candida dubliniensis.Candida lusitaniae.
Amphotericin B Lipid Complex (ABLC)
Published in M. Lindsay Grayson, Sara E. Cosgrove, Suzanne M. Crowe, M. Lindsay Grayson, William Hope, James S. McCarthy, John Mills, Johan W. Mouton, David L. Paterson, Kucers’ The Use of Antibiotics, 2017
Primary resistance to AmB remains rare in in Cryptococcus neoformans and in Candida spp. other than Candida lusitaniae, Candida guillermondii, and Candida lipolytica, although individual isolates of Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis, and Candida tropicalis may be resistant (Brajtburg et al., 1990; Pfaller et al., 2007; Walsh et al., 1996). Primary resistance to AmB is common in emerging pathogens, such as Malassezia furfur (Marcon et al., 1987) and Trichosporon beigelii (Walsh et al., 1990a; Arendrup et al., 2014). Resistant clinical yeast isolates have been isolated from immunocompromised patients who had received AmB for prolonged time periods (Wingard, 1994). It is unclear, however, whether resistance in these isolates was primary or acquired.
Prosthetic joint infection caused by Candida lusitaniae: report of a unique case
Published in Acta Clinica Belgica, 2019
Julia Bini Viotti, Monica Corzo-Pedroza, Jose Armando Gonzales Zamora
To our best knowledge, this is the first case of Candida lusitaniae PJI reported in the medical literature. Candida lusitaniae is an environmentally ubiquitous ascomycetes yeast with unknown specific ecological niche. It can be isolated from different substrates, such as soils, water, plants and gastrointestinal tracts of many animals including birds, mammals and humans [9]. Over the past decade, Candida lusitaniae has been recognized as an emerging fungal pathogen in immunocompromised hosts [10].