A substantial proportion of patients become colonised with Candida spp during hospital
stay, but only few subsequently develop severe infection. Clinical signs of severe infection …

The most common yeast species that act as agents of human disease are Candida albicans,
Candida tropicalis, Candida glabrata, Candida parapsilosis, and Cryptococcus neoformans …

Methods: A retrospective review of candidaemia between 1999 and 2008 and antifungal use
from 2000 to 2008 was performed at Sir Ganga Ram Hosptial, New Delhi. Initially (1999 …

Background: To determine the distribution of species of Candida and the risk factors
associated with candidemia in Indian population for which we conducted a retrospective …

Owing to a rise in frequency and change in pattern of cases with fungaemia at our tertiary
care centre, we conducted a prospective study for 4 months to understand the epidemiology …

An outbreak of nosocomial fungemia due to the unusual yeast, Pichia anomala occurred in
the pediatric wards of our hospital over a period of 23 months (April 1996 to February 1998) …

The increased incidence of systemic fungal infections in the past two decades has been
overwhelming. Earlier, it was pathogenic dimorphic fungi, which were known to cause …

Abstract The SENTRY Antifungal Surveillance Program monitors global susceptibility rates
of newer and established antifungal agents. We report the in vitro activity of seven antifungal …

Blood samples from 2542 clinically diagnosed cases of septicemia were processed. Out of
these 946 (76.55%) were from Pediatric Department and rest from other Departments …

In a prospective analysis, blood from 660 neonates admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU) of a teaching hospital with clinical suspicion of septicemia was cultured to look for …