Lodderomyces elongisporus Masquerading as Candida parapsilosis as a Cause of Bloodstream Infections
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Vol. 46 (1) , 374-376
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01790-07
Abstract
Ten yeast bloodstream isolates identified as Candida parapsilosis by conventional methods grew as turquoise blue colonies on Chromagar media. Subsequent sequence analysis showed that these isolates were the species Lodderomyces elongisporus . To our knowledge, this is the first published report of L. elongisporus as a cause of human disease.Keywords
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