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ArticleAMB Express2024

Co-colonization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Candida spp. in children with malignancies.

Raziyeh Baharvand, Fatemeh Fallah, Parvaneh Jafari, Leila Azimi

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Article in AMB Express, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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  1. MixedJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Raziyeh BaharvandDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Arak, Iran.
Fatemeh FallahPediatric Infections Research Center, Research Institute for Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Parvaneh JafariDepartment of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Islamic Azad University, Arak branch, Arak, Iran. Parvaneh.jafari@gmail.com.
Leila AzimiPediatric Infections Research Center, Research Institute for Children's Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Islamic Azad University, Arak · IRShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences · IR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study aimed to evaluate the interaction between methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) and Candida spp. in the oral cavity of children with malignancies under chemotherapy. We evaluated the expression level of Als3p and mecA in Candida spp. and MRSA strains in both single colonization and co-colonization condition. Oral and nasal samples were collected by dry sponge swabs in 10 ml of sterile phosphate-buffered saline. The MRSA and Candida spp. was confirmed using the PCR method and mecA and Als3p genes, respectively. The SYBR Green-based quantitative real-time PCR was used to evaluate the relative expression levels of mecA and Als3p genes in MRSA and Candida spp., respectively. The frequency of S. aureus in oral-only and nasal-only swab samples were 14.1% (n = 24/170). 58.3% (n = 14/24) and 29.2% (n = 7/24) of S. aureus isolated from oral and nasal samples were MRSA, respectively. Among Candida species, C. albicans (n = 28/170; 16.5%) had the highest frequency. The oral co-colonization of MRSA and Candida spp. was detected in 4.7% (n = 8/170) patients. The overall average of gene expression levels among all Candida spp. and MRSA isolates indicated that the mecA and Als3p genes expression increased six and two times in co-colonization conditions compared to single colonization conditions, respectively. Our findings revealed the importance of polymicrobial infection in clinical settings and stated that it is possible that Candida spp. facilitates the infection of S. aureus and can lead to systemic infection in co-colonized patients.

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Candida Spp.ChildrenIranMalignancyMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcus aureus

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