TABLE 2.
Yeast strains isolated from blood cultures in Norway from 1991 to 96
| Yeast species | No. (%) of isolates
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| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | Total | |
| C. albicans | 75 | 53 | 59 | 65 | 64 | 64 | 380 (66.0) |
| C. glabrata | 16 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 72 (12.5) |
| C. parapsilosis | 11 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 44 (7.6) |
| C. tropicalis | 3 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 37 (6.4) |
| C. krusei | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 11 (1.9) |
| Candida guillermondii | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 (1.0) |
| Cryptococcus neoformans | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 (0.9) |
| Candida kefyr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 (0.5) |
| Candida norvegensis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 (0.3) |
| Other speciesa | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 (2.3) |
| Yeast not identified | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0.5) |
| Total | 110 | 83 | 94 | 89 | 98 | 102 | 576 |
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Other species included Candida blankii, Candida inconspicua, Candida lusitaniae, Candida sake, Candida sphaerica, Cryptococcus uniguttulatus, Geotrichum capitatum, Blastoschizomyces capitatus, Malassezia pachydermatis, Malassezia furfur, Rhodotorula rubra, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Sporobolomyces hisparicus (one isolate of each species).