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Volume 32, Number 6—June 2026

Research

Outbreak of Wickerhamomyces anomalus (formerly Candida pelliculosa) Bloodstream Infections, Venezuela, 2022–20231

Maribel Dolande-Franco2, Diego H. Caceres2Comments to Author , Juan F. Frey-Carrillo, Antoniellys Pérez-Guzmán, Andres Ceballos-Garzon, Aleiram Chaurio-Briceño, Bram Spruijtenburg, Yusely Roa-Díaz, Eelco F.J. Meijer, Elaine Cristina Francisco, Rodrigo Oliveira, Tatiana Drummond-Suinaga, and Jacques F. Meis
Author affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Higiene “Rafael Rangel,” Caracas, Venezuela (M. Dolande-Franco, J.F. Frey-Carrillo, A. Chaurio-Briceño); Immuno-Mycologics, Norman, Oklahoma, USA (D.H. Caceres); Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia (D.H. Caceres, A. Ceballos-Garzon); Radboudumc-CWZ Center of Expertise for Mycology, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (D.H. Caceres, B. Spruijtenburg, E.F.J. Meijer, J.F. Meis); Hospital Universitario de Caracas, Caracas (A. Pérez-Guzmán, Y. Roa-Díaz, T. Drummond-Suinaga); Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital/Dicoon, Nijmegen (B. Spruijtenburg, E.F.J. Meijer); Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (E.C. Francisco); Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of São Paulo, São Paulo (E.C. Francisco); Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil (E.C. Francisco); Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co., Bremen, Germany (R. Oliveira); University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (J.F. Meis)

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Figure 3

Short tandem repeat genotyping of 99 Wickerhamomyces anomalus isolates in study of outbreak of W. anomalus (formerly Candida pelliculosa) bloodstream infections, Venezuela, 2022–2023. Minimum-spanning tree of 99 W. anomalus isolates based on microsatellite markers. Branch lengths indicate similarity between isolates with thick solid lines (variation in 1 allele), thin solid lines (variation in 2 alleles), and thin dotted lines (variation in >4 alleles). Isolates are colored according to the city and hospital of origin; parenthetical values in the legend represent the number of isolates.

Figure 3. Short tandem repeat genotyping of 99 Wickerhamomyces anomalus isolates in study of outbreak of W. anomalus (formerly Candida pelliculosa) bloodstream infections, Venezuela, 2022–2023. Minimum-spanning tree of 99 W. anomalus isolates based on microsatellite markers. Branch lengths indicate similarity between isolates with thick solid lines (variation in 1 allele), thin solid lines (variation in 2 alleles), and thin dotted lines (variation in >4 alleles). Isolates are colored according to the city and hospital of origin; parenthetical values in the legend represent the number of isolates.

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the 22nd INFOCUS Conference; November 20–23, 2024; Bogota, Colombia.

2These authors share first authorship of this article.

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