Open AccessMolecular identification of Fusarium species complex isolated from clinical samples and its antifungal susceptibility patterns
Author(s) -
Yashik Bansal,
Nidhi Singla,
Neelam Kaistha,
S Sood,
Jagdish Chander
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
current medical mycology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.369
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2423-3439
pISSN - 2423-3420
DOI - 10.18502/cmm.5.4.2149
Subject(s) - antifungal , fusarium , identification (biology) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , computational biology , species complex , genetics , botany , gene , phylogenetic tree
More than 300 Fusarium species are grouped into approximately 23 species complexes out of which around 70 are involved in human infections. The nomenclature of these species has undergone considerable changes in recent years. These species cause localized infections in individuals while inducing systemic infections mainly in immunocompromised patients. The present study was conducted to identify Fusarium species in clinical isolates by molecular methods and determine their in vitro minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) patterns to address the lack of data in this domain in Northern India.