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24 April 2017 Aberrant lipogenesis is a metabolic marker for azole-resistant candida albicans (Conference Presentation)
Caroline Karanja, Weili Hong, Waleed Younis, Ji-Xin Cheng, Mohamed Seleem
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Proceedings Volume 10069, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVII; 100690S (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255078
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States
Abstract
Candida is the single most important cause of fungal bloodstream infections worldwide causing significant mortality as high as 50%. This high mortality rate is, in part, due to the inability to rapidly diagnose and simultaneously initiate an effective antifungal therapy early in the disease process. Current culture-based diagnostics are often slow, requiring several days to complete, and are only 50% sensitive in diagnosing candidemia (Candida bloodstream infection). For every 12 hours of delay in starting correct antifungal therapy, the risk of death for a given patient with candidemia increases by 200%. To address this unmet need, we explored the potential of employing stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS) imaging to diagnose candidemia and probe metabolic differences between resistant and susceptible strain at a single cell level. Metabolism is integral to pathogenicity; microorganism have very short life cycles, and therefore only a few hours are needed to observe a full metabolic cycle. SRS imaging at C-H vibration frequency at 2850 cm-1 revealed a substantial difference in lipogenesis between the susceptible and resistant C. albicans. Treating the C. albicans with fluconazole, an antimicrobial drug that targets ergosterol biosynthesis only affected the lipogenesis in the susceptible strain. Our results show that single-cell metabolic imaging under a SRS microscope can be used for diagnose candidemia and early detection of antimicrobial susceptibility.
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Caroline Karanja, Weili Hong, Waleed Younis, Ji-Xin Cheng, and Mohamed Seleem "Aberrant lipogenesis is a metabolic marker for azole-resistant candida albicans (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10069, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVII, 100690S (24 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2255078
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KEYWORDS
Diagnostics
Microorganisms
Microscopes
Mode conditioning cables
Pathogens
Raman scattering
Biomedical optics
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