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            <journal-id journal-id-type="issn">0973-7510</journal-id>
            <journal-title-group>
                <journal-title>Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology</journal-title>
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            <issn pub-type="epub">2581-690X</issn>
            <publisher>
                <publisher-name>DR. M.N. Khan</publisher-name>
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            <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22207/JPAM.16.4.41</article-id>
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                <article-title>Monitoring the Spectrum of Candidemia and its Anti-fungal Resistance in A Tertiary Care Centre – An Emerging Global Alarm</article-title>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Selvan</surname>
                        <given-names>Pavithra</given-names>
                    </name>
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						<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Vajravelu</surname>
                        <given-names>Leela Kakithakara</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Mohanraj</surname>
                        <given-names>Hemamalini</given-names>
                    </name>
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				<contrib contrib-type="author">
                    <name>
                        <surname>Ramakrishna</surname>
                        <given-names>Manjula Sidlagatta</given-names>
                    </name>
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          <aff id="aff-1">SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu District, Tamilnadu, India.</aff>
			
			 			
			
            <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-11-14">
                <day>14</day>
				<month>11</month>
                <year>2022</year>
            </pub-date>
            <volume>16</volume>
            <issue>4</issue>
            <fpage>2704</fpage>
            <lpage>2711</lpage>
            <permissions>
                <copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 2022 The Author(s)</copyright-statement>
                <copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
                <license license-type="open-access"
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                    <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.<uri 
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            <self-uri xlink:href="https://microbiologyjournal.org/monitoring-the-spectrum-of-candidemia-and-its-anti-fungal-resistance-in-a-tertiary-care-centre-an-emerging-global-alarm/"/>
            <abstract>
                <p> Candidemia is caused by healthcare-associated bloodstream infections ranking as a fifth cause especially in the United States as well as in European countries among intensive care units (ICUs). Despite ongoing advances in diagnostics and medical interventions, it remains associated with high mortality rates, along with the prolonged duration of hospitalization and elevated health care costs. The aim of the study is to characterize Candida species and to investigate the antifungal resistance pattern from blood samples in a Tertiary Care centre. 53 known Candida isolates from blood samples of various wards and ICUs were collected. All isolates are processed and speciated by the conventional identification method demonstrating its various virulence factors phenotypically and AFST patterns were studied. In the present study, among 53 Candida isolates, 25 (47.16%) C. tropicalis is a predominant pathogen followed by 11 (20.75%) C. parapsilosis, 9 (16.98%) C. albicans, 4 (7.54%) C. glabrata and 4 (7.54%) C. krusei. Phospholipase activity was observed in 30 (56.60%) isolates, 36 (67.92%) showed hemolysin production. AFST showed 15 (28.30%) isolates being resistant to Fluconazole and 2 (3.77%) showed resistance to Amphotericin B. The prevalence of candidemia was high, the fatality rate was alarming and non-albicans Candida species were predominant and fluconazole was the least effective drug owing to the high level of resistance. </p>
		</abstract>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Candidemia</kwd>
        <kwd>Intensive Care Units</kwd>
		<kwd>Candida Species</kwd>
		<kwd>Anti-Fungal Susceptibility Test</kwd>
        
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