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 |