Table 1 Macroscopic and microscopic identification of isolated fungal elements from immunocompromised patients
From: Isolation and identification of Candida spp. from immunocompromised patients
Type of sample | No. of samples | SDB (turbidity) | SDA (Growth) | + VE Gram stain | CHROMagar | + VE Germ tube | + VE Chlamydospores | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
a | k | g | p | t | |||||||
Diabetic patients | 36 | 36 | 25 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 24 | ||
Urine sample | 18 | 15 | |||||||||
Oral swabs | 32 | 21 | |||||||||
Pregnant woman | 21 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | - | 8 | 8 | ||
Urine sample | 24 | 18 | |||||||||
Vaginal swabs | 5 | 3 | |||||||||
Organ transplantation | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
Cancer patients | 12 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 9 | 9 | ||
Urine sample | 12 | 8 | |||||||||
Oral swabs | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
Burned and wounded patients | 9 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 3 | ||
Burned | 7 | 4 | |||||||||
Wounded | 8 | 5 | |||||||||
Total/percentage | 118 | 82 (69.4%) | 82 (69.4%) | 82 (69.4%) | 48 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 48 (55.8%) | 47 (54.6%) |
Total candida isolates are 86 isolates | |||||||||||
55.8% | 29% | 11.6% | 2.3% | 1.1% | |||||||