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Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John T. Sinnott IV ,
James P. Cullison  and
Michael P. Sweeney
John T. Sinnott IV*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Tampa, Florida Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
James P. Cullison
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Tampa, Florida Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
Michael P. Sweeney
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Tampa, Florida Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
*
Director of Epidemiology, The Tampa General Hospital, Davis Island, PO Box 1289, Tampa, FL 33601
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Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata is a fungus with a diversity of habitats and an enlarging clinical spectrum. It is found as normal human flora in the gastrointestinal tract, skin, and vagina and also found in nature in soil and in animals. It was initially thought to represent a nonpathogenic saprophyte, however, it has been recovered with increasing frequency from clinical specimens. It is now recognized as a cause of disease in the normal and compromised host.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 8 , August 1987 , pp. 334 - 336
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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