Susceptibilities
General Information
- Lipid-based Amphotericin B
- Voriconazole
- Invasive infections in immunocompromised hosts and hospitalized patients, but can cause mucocutaneous disease in normal hosts (i.e. vaginitis)
- Normally found in the GI tract and on skin
- Often a colonizer
Superficial disease
- Cutaneous
- Thrush
- Vulvovaginal candidiasis
Invasive disease
- Candidemia
- Line infections
- Intra-abdominal infection
- Surgical wound infection
- Endocarditis
- Infectious Disease consultation recommended in invasive infection
- Cultures yielding Candida spp. from non-sterile sites (e.g. stool, urine, mucocutaneous sites, respiratory samples) typically do not represent infection, but rather colonization of that surface
- Cultures yielding Candida spp. from sterile fluid (e.g. blood, CSF, peritoneum, deep tissue) almost always reflective of invasive infection
Pathogens
