Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with refractory and recurrent oropharyngeal candidiasis and species distribution of the Candida isolates

Patient characteristic	Number (%) of isolates
Total	C. albicans	C. glabrata complex	C. tropicalis	C. parapsilosis	Others
Age (years)
20–39	49 (8.7)	44	2	1	1	1
40–59	206 (37)	186	7	8	2	3
≥60	303 (54.3)	270	20	7	1	5
Gender
Male	134 (24)	113	10	5	2	4
Female	424 (76)	387	19	11	2	5
Total	558 (100)	500 (89.6)	29 (5.2)	16 (2.9)	4 (0.7)	9 (1.6)