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. 2017 Oct 18;3(4):57. doi: 10.3390/jof3040057

Table 2.

Country estimated burden of candidaemia.

Country (Reference) Burden Rate/100,000 Comments
Brazil [52] 28,991 14.9 No local incidence data
Pakistan [53] 38,795 21 1.6 per 100,000 + 50% of candida peritonitis
Qatar [54] 288 15.4 15.4 per 100,000 from previous studies
Thailand [55] 8650 13.3 94% of non-neutropenic patients with fungaemia + 4.5% of neutropenic patients
Hungary [56] 1110 11 3–10 per 100,000 from previous studies + 780 cases in chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Israel [57] 664 11 Incidence rate obtained from a nationwide surveillance between 2005 and 2007 and adjusted to the number of ICU hospital days in 2012
Denmark [58] 527 9.4 Data from Arendrup et al. [30]
Russia [59] 11,840 8.3 0.37 per 1000 hospitalised patients based on previous report
Spain [60] 3807 8.1 8.1 per 100,000 from previous study
United Kingdom [19] 5142 8.1 38% of probable or proven invasive candidiasis tested by blood culture techniques in England, wales and northern Ireland, plus 4.8 cases per 100,000 in Scotland
Ireland [61] 403 6.3 Statistics and Research records office voluntary laboratory reporting programme
Nigeria [62] 9284 6 6 per 100,000 + 50% of candida peritonitis
Uzbekistan [63] 1825 5.9 Data from Ministry of Health
Algeria [64] 2020 5 No local incidence data
Bangladesh [65] 8100 5 No local incidence data
Belgium [66] 555 5 No local incidence data
Chile [67] 878 5 No local incidence data
Czech Republic [68] 526 5 No local incidence data
Dominican Republic [69] 504 5 No local incidence data
Ecuador [70] 1037 5 No local incidence data
Egypt [71] 4127 5 5 per 100,000 and 0.98 per 100,000 of intra-abdominal peritonitis
Greece [72] 541 5 No local incidence data
Guatemala [73] 772 5 No local incidence data
Jamaica [74] 136 5 5.5 per 100,000
Kenya [75] 1990 5 No local incidence data
Mexico [76] 5617 5 5 per 100,000 + 285 in candida peritonitis
Peru [77] 1557 5 2–11 per 100,000 + 50% of candida peritonitis
Tanzania [78] 2181 5 No local incidence data
Trinidad and Tobago [79] 87 5 5 per 100,000 + 285 in candida peritonitis
Ukraine [80] 752 5 5 per 100,000 + 285 in candida peritonitis
Vietnam [81] 4540 5 No local incidence data
Germany [82] 3712 4.6 Data from Statistisches Bundesamt Wiesbaden 2015 [83]
Korea [84] 1976 4.1 0.22 per 1000 patients
France [85] 2370 3.6 No local incidence data
Canada [86] 1034 2.9 Average from 2 studies, 2.8 cases/100,000 [87] and 3.3 cases/100,000 [88] over a 5 year period
Austria [89] 209 2.6 -
Sri Lanka [90] 507 2.5 unpublished data from the department of mycology
Portugal [91] 231 2.2 Data from Portuguese multicentre survey [92]
Philippines [93] 1968 2 2 per 100,000 + 50% candida peritonitis