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YEAST FUNGUS FLORA IN PATIENTS IN A GERIATRIC HOSPITAL
Author(s) -
Kahanpää Asko
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica section b microbiology and immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-5563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1974.tb02296.x
Subject(s) - yeast , flora (microbiology) , sputum , candida albicans , microbiology and biotechnology , incidence (geometry) , fungus , biology , medicine , bacteria , tuberculosis , botany , pathology , genetics , physics , optics
In a 220‐bed geriatric hospital in Helsinki, 427 specimens were taken for fungal culture from 155 aged persons in 1970–1973. Of this sample material, 44.0 per cent were positive for yeast growth. A total of 212 yeast strains, belonging to 11 species, were isolated. The strains were most generally isolated from sputum (66.7 per cent of specimens were positive for yeast). The incidence of occurrence of the most common yeast, Candida albicans , was 26.3 per cent in the total specimen material (= 52.8 per cent of all isolated yeasts). The second in frequency was Torulopsis glabrata (21.2 per cent of isolated yeasts).