Table 1. Number and incidence of candidemia cases reported in all jurisdictions, Australia, 2001–2004*.
| Parameter | State or territory |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSW | VIC | QLD | SA | WA | TAS | NT | ACT | Total | |
| No. cases (%) | 399 (36.4) | 300 (27.4) | 273 (24.9) | 45 (4.1) | 40 (3.7) | 19 (1.7) | 5 (0.5) | 14 (1.3) | 1,095 (100.0) |
| Mean incidence per 100,000 population | 1.98 | 2.01† | 2.34 | 0.99 | 0.67 | 1.31 | 0.83 | 1.44 | 1.81† |
| Mean incidence per 1,000 separations‡ | 0.19 | 0.36 | 0.18 | 0.25 | 0.16 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.21 |
| No. institutions | 35 | 15 | 30 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 90 |
| Acquisition (% of episodes)§ | |||||||||
| IHCA | 79.1 | 83.4 | 79.3 | 90.2 | 87.5 | 89.5 | 50 | 85.7 | 81.5 |
| OHCA | 10.9 | 14.2 | 10.7 | 9.8 | 2.5 | 10.5 | 0 | 14.3 | 11.6 |
| CA | 10.0 | 2.4 | 10.0 | 0 | 10.0 | 0 | 50.0 | 0 | 6.9 |
*NSW, New South Wales; VIC, Victoria; QLD, Queensland; SA, South Australia; WA, Western Australia; TAS, Tasmania, NT, Northern Territory; ACT, Australian Capital Territory; IHCA, inpatient healthcare-associated; OHCA, outpatient healthcare-associated; CA, community-acquired. †Mean incidences per 100,000 in VIC and in Australia are 2.25 and 1.87, respectively, with inclusion of 36 cases identified at the nonparticipating adult hospital. ‡Data available for 17 hospitals in NSW, 8 in VIC, 8 in QLD, 2 in SA, 1 in WA, 2 in TAS, 1 in NT, and 1 in ACT. §Data for 919 candidemia episodes.