Table 1.
Distribution per year of Candida species positive blood culture events.
| Year | Quarter |
Candida Species Positive BC Event, n |
C. albicans % (n) |
C. parapsilosis Complex % (n) |
C. glabrata % (n) |
C. tropicalis % (n) |
C. krusei % (n) |
C. guilliermondii % (n) |
C. lusitaniae % (n) |
C. dubliniensis % (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1° | 90 | 40 (36) | 28.9 (26) | 16.7 (15) | 10 (9) | 2.2 (2) | 1.1 (1) | 1.1 (1) | - |
| 2° | 97 | 37.1 (36) | 49.4 (48) | 9.3 (9) | 3.1 (3) | - | - | 1.1 (1) | - | |
| 3° | 107 | 43 (46) | 36.5 (39) | 13.1 (14) | 5.6 (6) | 0.9 (1) | - | - | 0.9 (1) | |
| 4° | 86 | 44.2 (38) | 34.8 (30) | 12.8 (11) | 3.5 (3) | - | 2.3 (2) | 1.2 (1) | 1.2 (1) | |
| Subtotal | 380 | 41.1 (156) | 37.6 (143) | 12.9 (49) | 5.5 (21) | 0.8 (3) | 0.8 (3) | 0.8 (3) | 0.5 (2) | |
| 2021 | 1° | 73 | 56.2 (41) | 20.5 (15) | 19.2 (14) | 2.7 (2) | - | 1.4 (1) | - | - |
| 2° | 101 | 46.5 (47) | 20.8 (21) | 19.8 (20) | 5.9 (6) | 5 (5) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | - | |
| 3° | 99 | 44.4 (44) | 32.3 (32) | 10.1 (10) | 8.1 (8) | 3 (3) | 2.1 (2) | - | - | |
| 4° | 92 | 52.3 (48) | 28.3 (26) | 13 (12) | 3.2 (3) | 3.2 (3) | - | - | - | |
| Subtotal | 365 | 49.3 (180) | 25.8 (94) | 15.3 (56) | 5.2 (19) | 3 (11) | 1.1 (4) | 0.3 (1) | - | |
| Total | 745 | 45.1 (336) | 31.8 (237) | 14.1 (105) | 5.4 (40) | 1.9 (14) | 0.9 (7) | 0.5 (4) | 0.3 (2) |
Abbreviations: BC: blood culture. Numbers in bold indicate statistically significant difference (p ≤ 0.05).