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(Redirected from Candida lusitaniae) Species of fungus

Clavispora lusitaniae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Saccharomycetes
Order: Saccharomycetales
Family: Metschnikowiaceae
Genus: Clavispora
Species: C. lusitaniae
Binomial name
Clavispora lusitaniae
Rodr. Mir.
Synonyms

Candida lusitaniae Uden & Carmo Souza

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of C. lusitaniae on filament-inducing media. Cells grown on V8 (pH = 7) media for 7 days at 37 °C were processed for SEM, and imaged (see Materials and Methods). Scale bars for upper panel (1000x) and lower panel (5000x) images represent 10 μm and 2 μm, respectively. WT (ATCC42720), cnb1 mutant (YC198), and crz1 mutant (YC187)

Clavispora lusitaniae, formerly also known by the anamorph name Candida lusitaniae, is a species of yeast in the genus Candida or Clavispora. The species name is a teleomorph name.

Clavispora lusitaniae was first identified as a human pathogen in 1979.

Clavispora lusitaniae was initially described as a rare cause of fungemia, with fewer than 30 cases reported between 1979 and 1990. However, there has been a marked increase in the number of recognized cases of candidemia due to this organism in the last two decades. Bone marrow transplantation and high-dose cytoreductive chemotherapy have both been identified as risk factors for infections with this organism. These patients are often neutropenic for extended periods of time, leaving them susceptible to bacterial and fungal infections, including Candidal infections. A study found that C. lusitaniae was responsible for 19% of all breakthrough fungemia infections in cancer patients between 1998 and 2013.

Some investigators have theorized that the widespread use of Amphotericin B empiric antifungal therapy selects for infections with Candida lusitaniae.

The U.S. CDC has cautioned that the use of the teleomorph name Clavispora lusitaniae for the species can be misleading, because it does not "include the word Candida even though this organism is indeed a species of Candida".

References

  1. ^ "Beware of alternate names for Candida species" (PDF). U.S. CDC. July 9, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  2. Pappagianis D, Collins MS, Hector R, Remington J (1979). "Development of resistance to amphotericin B in Candida lusitaniae infecting a human". Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 16 (2): 123–6. doi:10.1128/aac.16.2.123. PMC 352808. PMID 290351.
  3. Wingard JR (1995). "Importance of Candida species other than C. albicans as pathogens in oncology patients". Clin. Infect. Dis. 20 (1): 115–25. doi:10.1093/clinids/20.1.115. PMID 7727637.
  4. Jung, Dong Sik; Farmakiotis, Dimitrios; Jiang, Ying; Tarrand, Jeffrey J.; Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P. (Nov 2015). "Uncommon Candida Species Fungemia among Cancer Patients, Houston, Texas, USA". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 21 (11): 1942–1950. doi:10.3201/eid2111.150404. ISSN 1080-6059. PMC 4625381. PMID 26488845.
  5. Krcmery V, Barnes AJ (2002). "Non-albicans Candida spp. causing fungaemia: pathogenicity and antifungal resistance". J. Hosp. Infect. 50 (4): 243–60. doi:10.1053/jhin.2001.1151. PMID 12014897.
Taxon identifiers
Clavispora lusitaniae
Candida lusitaniae
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