PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER OBSERVATIONAL STUDY OF FUNGURIA IN HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS

GUILLERMO GARCIA-EFFRON; CÓRDOBA S; GUELFAND, L; MALDONADO I; RELLOSO S; ARECHAVALA A; GUSTAVO GIUSIANO; AGORIO I; FLORES V

Curitiba, Brasil

Workshop; XII INFOCUS - XII Forum on Fungal Infection in the Clinical Practice - Latin America / 2014; 2014

Background: Funguria is a common clinical finding especially in patients with severe illnesses. However, the significance of funguria and the urianalysis findings are still not clear. Aims: To evaluate the prevalence of the different etiologic agents of funguria in Argentina, to define its epidemiology and to correlate direct exam findings with culture results. Methods: Fifteen medical centers were included in this multicenter prospective observational study. The study was conducted from June to September 2013 and 240 patients were included (inclusion criteria: at least one positive urine culture for yeasts). Data on patient demographics, care unit where the patient was hospitalized, type of sample, instrumentation and urianalysis results (number of leucocytes and yeast cells per microscopic field, CFU/urine ml and yeast identification) were collected. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize continuous variables. Fisher´s exact test (two-tailed) was used to evaluate the association between urianalysis results and the other collected categorical data as risk factors of funguria. A P