1. Candidaemia in polish hospitals - a multicentre survey
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Magdalena Pajączkowska, Małgorzata Juszczyk-Grudzińska, Urszula Nawrot, Hanna Przondo-Mordarska, Beata Sulik-Tyszka, Krzysztof Golec, Justyna Cieślik, Dorota Piasecka-Pazik, Ludmiła Szymaniak, Stefania Giedrys-Kalemba, Elzbieta Tryniszewska, Małgorzata Fleischer, A. Mol, Eugenia Gospodarek, Krzysztof Burdynowski, Ewa Swoboda-Kopeć, Alfred Samet, Wioletta Kłosowska, Małgorzata Krawczyk, Tomasz Ozorowski, Jolanta Komarnicka, Agnieszka Mikucka, Jolanta Prawda-Zołotar, Iwona Bilska, and Małgorzata Wróblewska
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pediatrics ,Adolescent ,Dermatology ,law.invention ,Young Adult ,law ,Intensive care ,Epidemiology ,medicine ,Prevalence ,Humans ,Neonatology ,Candida albicans ,Child ,Aged ,Candida ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,Cross Infection ,biology ,Candidemia ,Infant ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,Intensive care unit ,Corpus albicans ,Hospitals ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,Female ,Poland - Abstract
Summary Significant changes in the frequency of candidaemia and the distribution of causative species have been noted worldwide in the last two decades. In this study, we present the results of the first multicentre survey of fungaemia in Polish hospitals. A total of 302 candidaemia episodes in 294 patients were identified in 20 hospitals during a 2-year period. The highest number of infections was found in intensive care (30.8%) and surgical (29.5%) units, followed by haematological (15.9%), ‘others’ (19.2%) and neonatological (4.6%) units. Candida albicans was isolated from 50.96% of episodes; its prevalence was higher in intensive care unit and neonatology (61.22% and 73.33%, respectively), and significantly lower in haematology (22%; P
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- 2012