title: Candidaemia in cancer patients and in children in a neonatal intensive care unit.
abstract: The species most frequently found in the group of neonates was C. parapsilosis, its incidence reaching 48%. Other yeasts isolated from blood were C. albicans (41%), C. tropicalis (7%), C. krusei and C. pseudotropicalis (2% each). Six yeast species (C. albicans 44%, C. parapsilosis 28%, C. tropicalis 11%, C. krusei 8%, C. guilliermondii 6%, C. lusitaniae 3%) were detected in cancer patients. The presence of an intravenous catheter as a possible risk in the development of candidaemia was identified in all neonates and in 69% of cancer patients. C. krusei candidaemia was associated with prophylactic fluconazole therapy.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Saca, 040 15 Kosice, Slovakia.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Trubenová
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Virágová
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pilipcinec
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Danko
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Svický
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tkáciková
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002175:Candida / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016469:Fungemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000382:microbiology; D018154:Slovakia / Q000453:epidemiology