A pseudo-outbreak of Cyberlindnera fabianii funguria: Implication from whole genome sequencing assay.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although the yeast Cyberlindnera fabianii (C. fabianii) has been rarely reported in human infections, nosocomial outbreaks caused by this organism have been documented. Here we report a pseudo-outbreak of C. fabianii in a urology department of a Chinese hospital over a two-week period.

Methods

Three patients were admitted to the urology department of a tertiary teaching hospital in Beijing, China, from Nov to Dec 2018, for different medical intervention demands. During the period Nov 28 to Dec 5, funguria occurred in these three patients, and two of them had positive urine cultures multiple times. Sequencing of rDNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region and MALDI-TOF MS were applied for strain identification. Further, sequencing of rDNA non

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030058 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature