Table 3 |
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Species of Candida in 30 infants in neonatal intensive care units with candiduria |
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Species |
Number of cases of candiduria (%) - current study; n = 301 |
Number of cases of candiduria (%) (3) n = 25 |
Number of cases of candiduria (%) (4) n = 362 |
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Years of study |
2001-2003 |
1989-1995 |
1982-1993 |
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Candida albicans |
21 (70%) |
15 (60%) |
26 (72%) |
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Candida parapsilosis |
4 (13%) |
8 (32%) |
7 (19%) |
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Candida tropicalis |
2 (7%) |
2 (8%) |
1 (3%) |
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Candida lusitaniae |
2 (7%) |
0 |
0 |
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Candida glabrata |
1 (3%) |
0 |
2 (6%) |
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1Two of the infants with C. albicans and one with C. parapsilosis were fungemic. 2 Study reports 41 infants but microbiologic data only provided for 36 infants |
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Robinson et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2009 9:183 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-9-183 |
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