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Carbohydrate assimilation profiles of Brazilian Candida dubliniensis isolates based on ID 32C system.

Alves SH, Horta JA, Milán EP, Scheid LA, Vainstein MH, Santurio JM, Colombo AL

Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. hartzsa@ccs.ufsm.br

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the identification of 19 Brazilian C. dubliniensis based on the biochemical profile exhibited when tested by the commercial identification kit ID 32C (bioMerieux). Thirteen of the isolates were rigorously identified as C. dubliniensis and the remaining isolates (six) were considered as having a doubtful profile but the software also suggested that there was 83.6% of chances for them to be C. dubliniensis. As well as pointed by the literature the identification obtained by phenotypic tests should be considered presumptive for C. dubliniensis due to variability of this new species.

Published 9 May 2005 in Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo, 47(2): 109-11.
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