Lodderomyces elongisporus Masquerading as Candida parapsilosis as a Cause of Bloodstream Infections | Zendy

Shawn R. Lockhart | Zendy; S. A. Messer | Zendy; Michael A. Pfaller | Zendy; Daniel J. Diekema | Zendy

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Lodderomyces elongisporus Masquerading as Candida parapsilosis as a Cause of Bloodstream Infections

Author(s) -

Shawn R. Lockhart,

S. A. Messer,

Michael A. Pfaller,

Daniel J. Diekema

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.01790-07

Subject(s) - candida parapsilosis , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , yeast , bloodstream infection , fungemia , candida albicans , virology , antifungal , genetics

Ten yeast bloodstream isolates identified as Candida parapsilosis by conventional methods grew as turquoise blue colonies on Chromagar media. Subsequent sequence analysis showed that these isolates were the species Lodderomyces elongisporus. To our knowledge, this is the first published report of L. elongisporus as a cause of human disease.

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