Sexual forms of yeasts in clinical samples

✍ Scribed by Pedro García-Martos; José Mira; Fátima Galán; Juan Manuel Hernández

• Book ID: 104773356
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 334 KB
• Volume: 136
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0301-486X
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00437497

✦ Synopsis

The sexual or teleomorphic state of yeasts has only been described in a few clinically involved species, mainly those of the Saccharomycetaceae family. With the aim of gathering information on their incidence in human pathology, a study has been made of a total of 2,135 strains isolated from clinical samples and cultivated in McClary agar. From these, 8 strains in teleomorphic state were identified: Kluyveromyces marxianus [1], Pichia anomala [2], Pichia farinosa [1], Pichia membranaefaciens [1] and Saccharomyces cerevisiae [3]. The two strains ofP. anomala were responsible for ftmgemia; K. marxianus and the two strains of S. cerevisiae produced vaginitis; the other strains were oral cavity colonizers.