Fluorescent Capillary Electrophoresis Is Superior to Culture in Detecting Candida Species from Samples of Urinary Catheters and Ureteral Stents with Mono- or Polyfungal Biofilm Growth

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Publikace nespadá pod Ekonomicko-správní fakultu, ale pod Středoevropský technologický institut. Oficiální stránka publikace je na webu muni.cz.
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OBRUCOVA H. KOTÁSKOVÁ Iva TIHELKOVA R. HOLÁ Veronika RŮŽIČKA Filip FREIBERGER Tomáš

Rok publikování 2019
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Středoevropský technologický institut

Citace
www https://jcm.asm.org/content/57/4/e01861-18
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01861-18
Klíčová slova Candida; biofilms; capillary electrophoresis; fungi; panfungal PCR; polyfungal sample; ureteral stents; urinary catheters
Popis Molecular techniques in fungal detection and identification represent an efficient complementary diagnostic tool which is increasingly used to overcome limitations of routinely used culture techniques. The aim of this study was to characterize Candida sp. representation in samples from urine, urinary catheter, and ureteral stent biofilm using ITS2 ribosomal DNA (rDNA) amplification followed by fluorescent capillary electrophoresis (f-ITS2-PCR-CE) and to compare the results with those obtained by culture. A total of 419 samples were analyzed, and 106 (25.2%) were found positive, out of which 17 (16%) were polyfungal. The positivity rate did not differ between samples from catheters and stents (23.6% versus 20.9%) or between catheter and stent corresponding urine samples (40.2% versus 30.2%). Ten different Candida species were detected, with Candida parapsilosis (31.4%), Candida albicans (26.5%), and Candida tropicalis (12.4%) predominating. f-ITS2-PCR-CE was evaluated as substantially less time-consuming and 8.3 times more sensitive than the routinely applied culture technique with 1 mu l of urine/sonicated fluid inoculated, detecting 67 (19.9%) versus 8 (2.4%) positive samples out of 337 initially analyzed samples. The culture sensitivity considerably improved to 1.7 times lower than that of f-ITS2-PCR-CE after the inoculation volume was increased to 100 mu l in the additional 82 samples. Moreover, the molecular technique, unlike routine cultivation, enabled precise pathogen composition determination in polymicrobial samples. In conclusion, the f-ITS2-PCR-CE method was shown to be a quick and efficient tool for culture-independent detection and identification of fungi in urinary tract-related samples, demonstrating a higher sensitivity than culture.
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