TABLE 3.
Candida bloodstream infections: Distribution of species reported in publications from 2000 to 2006
| Location | Studies, n | Isolates, n (range) |
Median percentage (range) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C albicans | C glabrata | C tropicalis | C parapsilosis | C krusei | Reference | |||
| USA | 5 | 6130 (254–2759) | 55 (45–59) | 20 (12–24) | 11 (9–12) | 11 (7–14) | 2 (1–2) | 36,43,53,380,381 |
| Europe | 5 | 4186 (302–2089) | 57 (51–65) | 14 (9–15) | 7 (7–11) | 18 (3–23) | 2 (1–4) | 26,52,381–383 |
| Scandinavia | 3 | 2201 (307–1415) | 70 (63–70) | 13 (9–20) | 4 (3–7) | 5 (4–6) | 3 (2–8) | 37,38,383 |
| Canada | 3 | 1114 (208–464) | 62 (54–64) | 15 (11–17) | 6 (4–9) | 11 (9–12) | 3 (3) | 374,384,385 |
| Latin America | 2 | 967 (255–712) | 40 (40–41) | 8 (5–12) | 22 (21–23) | 23 (21–25) | 1 (1) | 20,383 |
| Australia | 1 | 1068 | 47 | 15 | 5 | 20 | 4 | 51 |