TABLE 1.

Species distribution of non-Candida yeast isolates over 10.5 years^a

Organism	1997-2000		2001-2004		2005-2007		1997-2007
	No. of isolates tested	% of total isolates tested	No. of isolates tested	% of total isolates tested	No. of isolates tested	% of total isolates tested	No. of isolates tested	% of total isolates tested
C. neoformans	688	28.1	1,812	35.1	1,012	27.8	3,512	31.2
C. gattii			26	0.5	6	0.2	32	0.3
C. laurentii	1	<0.1	31	0.6	24	0.7	56	0.5
C. albidus	2	<0.1	15	0.3	8	0.2	25	0.2
Cryptococcus spp.			33	0.6	35	1.0	68	0.6
Saccharomyces spp.	189	7.7	33	0.6	19	0.5	241	2.1
S. cerevisiae	58	2.4	552	10.7	470	12.9	1,080	9.6
Trichosporon spp.	211	8.6	375	7.3	169	4.6	755	6.7
T. asahii	13	0.5	15	0.3	149	4.1	177	1.6
T. beigelii/T. cutaneum	25	1.0	101	2.0	45	1.2	171	1.5
T. mucoides	1	<0.1	37	0.7	31	0.9	69	0.6
T. inkin	2	<0.1	7	0.1	10	0.3	19	0.2
T. ovoides			2	<0.1	3	<0.1	5	<0.1
Rhodotorula spp.	78	3.2	166	3.2	116	3.2	360	3.2
R. rubra/R. mucilaginosa	3	0.1	44	0.9	17	0.5	64	0.6
R. glutinis			20	0.4	17	0.5	37	0.3
R. minuta					1	<0.1	1	<0.1
Blastoschizomyces capitatus	1	<0.1	70	1.4	38	1.0	109	1.0
Pichia spp.	7	0.3	81	1.6	46	1.2	134	1.2
Hansenula spp.	10	0.4	14	0.3	4	0.1	28	0.2
Debaromyces spp.			1	<0.1	2	<0.1	3	<0.1
Other yeast	1,157	47.3	1,723	33.4	1,414	38.9	4,294	38.2
Total	2,446	100.0	5,158	100.0	3,636	100.0	11,240	100.0

^aIncludes all specimen types and all locations in hospitals from 134 institutions, 1997 to 2007.