Table 1.
Trends in distribution of the top five species of Candida from bloodstream infections over a 9-year period (2001 to 2009)
| Species | Species distribution (%) by year (n) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| C. albicans | 58 (1,000) | 56 (1,208) | 54 (1,178) | 58 (1,119) | 56 (1,045) | 56 (869) | 49 (749) | 48 (650) | 53 (560) |
| C. glabrata | 17 (287) | 15 (332) | 14 (291) | 13 (252) | 16 (291) | 15 (238) | 16 (239) | 19 (247) | 17 (175) |
| C. parapsilosis | 12 (206) | 13 (275) | 17 (360) | 15 (284) | 13 (243) | 14 (209) | 15 (220) | 18 (236) | 15 (162) |
| C. tropicalis | 10 (174) | 12 (265) | 12 (268) | 11 (211) | 12 (227) | 13 (203) | 14 (208) | 12 (161) | 12 (124) |
| C. krusei | 3 (50) | 4 (73) | 3 (65) | 3 (53) | 3 (59) | 2 (34) | 6 (94) | 3 (40) | 3 (35) |
| Total | 100 (1,717) | 100 (2,153) | 100 (2,162) | 100 (1,919) | 100 (1,865) | 100 (1,553) | 100 (1,510) | 100 (1,339) | 100 (1,056) |