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. 2011 Sep 15;6(9):e24198. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024198

Table 1. Patient characteristics and incidence (episode/1000 person/day).

Candida species
C. albicans C.parapsilosis C.glabrata C.tropicalis C. krusei Other All
(n = 170) (n = 99) (n = 33) (n = 23) (n = 9) (n = 14) (n = 348)
48,9% 28,4% 9,5% 6,6% 2,6% 4,0% 100,0%
Patients characteriristic
Mean age (standard deviation) 70,1 (±15,72) 66,6 (±16,03) 69,45 (±13,4) 73,35 (±15,32) 47,0 (±15,73) 67,07 (±20,72) 68,7 (±15,95)
Male sex, n (%) 99 (57,89) 49 (49,49) 18 (54,54) 13 (56,52) 6 (66,67) 8 (57,14) 185 (53,31)
Underline diseases, n (%)
- Surgery 75 (47,77) 54 (34,4) 13 (8,28) 9 (5,73) 2 (1,27) 4 (2,55) 157
- Solid organ transplantation 2 (40) 2 (40) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (20) 5
- Hematologic malignancy 11 (40,75) 7 (25,93) 1 (3,7) 1 (3,7) 6 (22,22) 1 (3,7) 27
- HIV 1 (33,33) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (33,33) 0 (0) 1 (33,33) 3
- Solid tumor 52 (52,53) 30 (30,3) 8 (8,08) 5 (5,05) 0 (0) 4 (4,04) 99
- Cardiovascular disease 73 (51) 40 (28) 10 (7) 10 (7) 2 (1,4) 8 (5,6) 143
- Diabetes mellitus 20 (51,28) 11 (28,20) 2 (5,13) 4 (10,26) 0 (0) 2 (5,13) 39
Incidence (episodes/1000 admissions)
2008 0,55 0,39 0,08 0,08 0,01 0,07 1,18
2009 0,95 0,48 0,11 0,1 0,06 0,07 1,77
2010 1,09 0,64 0,33 0,17 0,07 0,07 2,37