摘要：Introduction: The mycological literature currently devotes much attention to the issue of reduced fungal susceptibility to commonly used antifungal drugs.Purpose: To assess drug susceptibility of Candida strains isolated from samples collected from the surfaces of mobile phones and the hands of their owners. A total of 175 mobile telephones belonging to students and lecturers of the Medical University of Bialystok and University Hospital personnel as well as 175 hands of these phone owners were included in the mycological evaluation.Results: The rate of Candida contamination of personal mobile phones was more than 70.0%. C. glabrata strains were primarily isolated from the collected material (89.1% - hands; 74.9% - mobile phones). C. albicans strains showed susceptibility to most antimycotics, with the highest susceptibility to 5-fluorocytosine, and the lowest to fluconazole. C.glabrata showed the lowest susceptibility tofluconazole and miconazole, and the highest toketoconazole. C. krusei were relatively verysensitive to antibiotics, except for fluconazole.None of the isolated strains showed resistance tomore than three types of drugs.Conclusion: This study demonstrated that mobilephones are potentially vehicles for pathogenicCandida strains in a university and hospitalsettings.
