TABLE 1.

Species distribution of Candida bloodstream isolates by geographic area, SENTRY Program, 1997 and 1998^a

Geographic area	Yr	No. of isolates	% of isolates by species
			C. albicans	C. glabrata	C. parapsilosis	C. tropicalis	C. krusei	Unspecified Candida spp.
United States	1997	203	56.2	18.7	8.9	6.9	2.5	6.9
	1998	206	54.4	21.8	15.0	5.8	1.0	2.0
Canada	1997	61	52.5	11.5	22.9	8.2	1.6	3.3
	1998	57	70.1	12.3	7.0	5.2	1.8	3.6
Latin America	1997	42	40.5	2.4	38.1	11.9		7.1
	1998	65	44.6	9.2	18.5	20.0	1.5	6.2
All	1997	306	53.3	15.0	15.7	7.8	2.0	6.5
	1998	328	55.2	17.7	14.3	8.5	1.2	3.1

^aAdapted from the work of Pfaller et al. (20) and Diekema et al. (4).