Results of mycologic examinations of sputum in patients with pulmonary diseases during a 10-year period (1984-1993)
Kockovská, D.
Bratislavske Lekarske Listy 96(3): 168-172
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0006-9248 PMID: 7633933 Document Number: 451223
The study of present results of mycologic examinations of samples of sputums taken during the period from 1984 to 1993 from patients with pulmonary diseases. The examined group was constituted of 2,452 subjects, out of which 2/3 were male and 1/3 were female patients. The risk age category was discovered to be that over 61 years of age (32%). 70% of mycologic cultivations were positive. 1.640 etiologic agents were isolated from the positive samples. The most frequently isolated yeast species were Candida albicans (61.7%), Candida tropicalis (8.2%), Torulopsis sp. (4.9%), the most frequent fibrous microscopic fungi findings included Penicillium sp. (4.5%) and Aspergillus sp. (2.9%). The most frequent diagnoses included bronchitis ac. chr. 15%), pneumonia 13%, TBC of the lungs 11.7%, asthma bronchiale 10.6%, and bronchopneumonia 7%. Repeatedly C. albicans was the most frequently isolated species, namely in the range 52-80%.