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Multicenter Study
. 2022 Apr 29;60(4):myac021.
doi: 10.1093/mmy/myac021.

Contribution of the anaerobic blood culture vial for the recovery of Candida glabrata: A retrospective multicentric study

Eric Farfour  1 , Cecile Le Brun  2 , Assaf Mizrahi  3 , Pauline Bargain  4 , Marie-Fleur Durieux  5 , Frédérique Boquel  6 , Stéphane Corvec  7 , Fakhri Jeddi  8 , Anaëlle Muggeo  9   10 , Antoine Huguenin  10   11 , Olivier Barraud  12 , Marlène Amara  4 , Vincent Fihman  13   14 , Eric Bailly  15 , Françoise Botterel  6 , Thomas Guillard  9   10 , Marc Vasse  1 ; GMC study group
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Multicenter Study

Contribution of the anaerobic blood culture vial for the recovery of Candida glabrata: A retrospective multicentric study

Eric Farfour et al. Med Mycol. .

Abstract

Although Candida spp are aerobic microorganisms, some Candida strains, mainly Candida glabrata, can be recovered from anaerobic blood culture vials. We assessed the contribution of the anaerobic vials for the diagnosis of candidemia, especially for C. glabrata. We conducted a multicenter retrospective study including eight university or regional hospitals. A single episode of monomicrobial candidemia per patient was included from September 1st, 2016, to August 31st, 2019. The characteristics of all aerobic and anaerobic blood culture vials sampled within 2 h before and after the first positive blood culture vials were recorded (type of vials, result, and for positive vials time-to-positivity and Candida species). Overall, 509 episodes of candidemia were included. The main species were C. albicans (55.6%) followed by C. glabrata (17.1%), C. parapsilosis (4.9%), and C. tropicalis (4.5%). An anaerobic vial was positive in 76 (14.9%) of all episodes of which 56 (73.8%) were due to C. glabrata. The number of C. glabrata infections only positive in anaerobic vials was 1 (2.6%), 1 (11.1%), and 15 (37.5%) with the BACT/ALERT 3D the BACT/ALERT VIRTUO and the BACTEC FX instrument, respectively (P < 0.01). The initial positivity of an anaerobic vial was highly predictive of the isolation of C. glabrata with the BACTEC FX (sensitivity of 96.8%). C. glabrata time-to-positivity was shorter in anaerobic vial than aerobic vial with all instruments. Anaerobic blood culture vials improve the recovery of Candida spp mainly C. glabrata. This study could be completed by further analyses including mycological and pediatric vials.

Lay summary: Although Candida spp are aerobic microorganisms, C. glabrata is able to grow in anaerobic conditions. In blood culture, the time-to-positivity of C. glabrata is shorter in anaerobic than aerobic vials. Only the anaerobic vial was positive in up to 15 (37.5%) C. glabrata bloodstream infections.

Keywords: BACT/ALERT; Bactec; Candida; Virtuo; anaerobic blood culture; time-to-positivity.

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