A reliable estimation of Candida bloodstream infection prevalence is increasingly important to track changes in Candida species distribution and define burden of ongoing candidemia.A systematic review and meta-analysi...
Candidemia is defined as being a yeast infection confirmed by the presence of at least one positive Candida blood culture. It is a life threatening infection causing high mortality. The clinical signs are generally co...
Candidemia is one of the four most common nosocomial blood infections and is the most common hospital-acquired fungemia in a recent multi-institutional study from the US. The mortality of Candidemia can be up to 50%. ...
Objective:To evaluate the prevalence of Candida species in cancer patients with candidemia around the world,and to identify related risk factors and their antifungal resistance,with an emphasis on non-albicans Candida...
Invasive infections are a major complication before liver transplantation(LT)and in the early phase after surgery.There has been an increasing prevalence of invasive fungal disease(IFD),especially among the sickest pa...
We acknowledge the management of Russian Ministry of Health and Sino-Russian Medical Research Center of Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, China which offered finance support, laboratory space, and equipment used in this research. We also acknowledge specific clinics and hospitals that helped in collecting clinical samples. This research was financially supported by Russian Ministry of Health, Russia; Sino-Russian Medical Research Center of Heilongjiang Academy of Medical Sciences, China (Nos. CR201406 and CR201502), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81301703) and Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province, China (No. QC2013C078).
A multicenter prospective epidemiological survey on the etiologic agents of invasive candidosis was conducted in Russia in the period of 2012-2014. Samples were collected from 284 patients with invasive candidosis and...
Objective To investigate the clinical features and prognostic factors of nosocomially acquired candidemia.Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted for hospitalized patients with nosocomial candidemia between Jan...
Micafungin is an efficacious and well-tolerated echinocandin with in vitro and in vivo activity against a broad range of Candida species. The objective of this randomized, double-blind study was to examine the pharmac...