Contribution to the knowledge of the enzymatic activity of yeasts of clinical interest |
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Authors: | Pedro Garcia-Martos Jose Mira-Gutierrez |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Medicine, Universidad de Cádiz, Plaza de Fragela, 11003 Cadiz, Spain;(2) Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Av. Ana de Viya 21, 11009 Cadiz, Spain |
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Abstract: | The determination of the enzymatic activity of the yeasts has been applied to the identification of species, specially that ofCandida albicans. In order to know its usefulness in species of clinical interest, we have tested the commercial system API ZYM (Bio Mérieux) on 500 isolated strains of different organic samples, belonging to eight genera and twenty species. All the strains showed positivity to Phosphatase alcaline, Esterase (C4), Esterase lipase (C8), Leucine arylamidase and Phosphatase acid, and negativity to Lipase (C14), Trypsin, Chymotrypsin, -galactosidase, -glucoronidase, -manosidase and -fucosidase. Fourteen enzymatic activity patterns were obtained considering the substrates with variable results for the whole of the strains: Valine arylamidase, Cystine arylamidase, Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, -galactosidase, -glucosidase, -glucosidase and N-acetyl--glucosaminidase. In the majority of the species, the enzymatic profile did not have very specific results since it is usually shared by more than one species.C. albicans is that which presents the greatest number of enzymatic variations, some of these are similar to those of other common clinical species, such asCandida krusei, Candida parapsilosis andCandida tropicalis. This system is proposed as a rapid method for identification and as an epidemiological marker of medically important yeasts.Abbreviations AGL
-glucosidase
- BGA
-galactosidase
- BGL
-glucosidase
- CAA
Cystine arylamidase
- NAG
N.Acetyl--glucosaminidase
- PHO
Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase
- VAA
Valine arylamidase |
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Keywords: | API ZYM Candida Enzymatic activity Identification system Yeasts |
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