Table 6.

Risk factors

Author	Year	Study design		Study period	Country	Level of care	Population description	Number of patients	Risk factors
Fernández-Ruiz et al. 11	2015	Retrospective cohort study	Multi-center	05/2010–04/2011	Spain	Tertiary	Patients with candidaemia	59	Bloodstream infections due to Candida tropicalis vs. other Candida species: Age [OR 1.01 (95% CI 1.00–1.02)], leukaemia [OR 4.77 (95% CI 1.96–11.6)], chronic lung disease [OR 2.62 (95% CI 1.44–4.77)]
Jordan et al. 24	2014	Retrospective cohort study	Multi-center	01/2008–12/2009	Spain	Tertiary	Paediatric intensive care patients with invasive candidiasis	19	Neutropenia in 3/19 C. tropicalis vs. 5/125 any Candida species
Ko et al. 2	2019	Retrospective cohort study	Multi-center	01/2010–02/2016	Korea	Tertiary	>16 years old with non-albicans candidaemia	263	Renal disease associated with C. tropicalis compared with other non-albicans species (P < .001), APACHE II scores were highest in C. tropicalis (P < .001)