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. 2007 Nov 21;46(1):150–156. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01901-07

TABLE 1.

Species distribution of Candida isolates by geographic region

Candida species % of isolatesa
APAC (n = 958) LAM (n = 1,112) EU (n = 1,787) NAM (n = 1,489) Total (n = 5,346)
C. albicans 57.10 47.93 58.42 50.03 53.67
C. parapsilosis 15.97 18.62 10.63 14.04 14.20
C. glabrata 8.46 5.67 13.93 23.77 13.97
C. tropicalis 14.20 19.96 8.56 7.66 11.69
C. krusei 0.94 1.62 4.87 1.48 2.54
C. guilliermondii 0.73 3.60 0.50 0.34 1.14
C. lusitaniae 0.63 0.63 1.29 1.48 1.08
C. kefyr 0.10 0.63 1.23 0.47 0.69
C. famata 0.84 0.72 0.22 0.27 0.45
Candida spp.b 1.04 0.63 0.34 0.47 0.56
a

Regions: APAC, Asia-Pacific (16 study sites); LAM, Latin America (15 study sites); EU, Europe (32 study sites); NAM, North America (28 study sites). For each region, the number of isolates (n) is given in parentheses.

b

Includes C. pelliculosa (11 isolates), C. lipolytica (8 isolates), C. dubliniensis (6 isolates), C. rugosa (2 isolates), C. zeylanoides (2 isolates), and C. intermedia (1 isolate).