Abstract

The azol group drugs given without performing yeast isolation and Identification lead to the selection of non-albicans Candida species that are resistant to these drugs and result in more frequent infections of these spec es.

This study was performed to determine the rate of non-albicans Cand da spec es n our hosp tal. For th s a m, 76 Cand da stra ns solated as pathogen agents were identifed by API-20 C (Biomerioux) identifcation system. The most commonly isolated Candida species was C. albicans 72°% and 28°% of the isolates were non-albicans species.

Key words: Clinical specimens, Candida species