RT Book, Section
A1 Knapp, Katherine M.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7028790
T1 Chapter 297. Candida
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7028790
RD 2024/04/16
AB Candida  species  are  yeast  forms  that  are  ubiquitous  in  nature  and  frequent  colonizers  of  the  skin  and  mucous  membranes  in  humans,  although  they  rarely  cause  invasive  disease  in  immunocompetent  individuals.  Only  a  small  number  of  the  more  than  150  species  of  Candida  that  have  been  described  are  considered  to  be  pathogenic.  Candida  albicans  remains  the  most  frequent  cause  of  human  candidiasis,  but  infections  owing  to  other  species  of  Candida  are  increasingly  recognized.1-4  In  addition,  the  incidence  of  infections  owing  to  C  albicans  isolates  that  are  resistant  to  azole  antifungals  is  increasing.  This  changing  epidemiology  has  implications  for  appropriate  treatment  of  antifungal-resistant  Candida  infections.