학술논문
Usefulness of the "Candida score" for discriminating between Candida colonization and invasive candidiasis in non-neutropenic critically ill patients: A prospective multicenter study.
Document Type
Article
Author
León, Cristóbal; Ruiz-Santana, Sergio; Saavedra, Pedro; Galván, Beatriz; Blanco, Armando; Castro, Carmen; Balasini, Carina; Utande-Vázquez, Aránzazu; de Molina, Francisco J. González; Blasco-Navalproto, Miguel A.; López, Maria J.; Charles, Pierre Emmanuel; Martín, Estrella; Hernández-Viera, María Adela
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Subject
*CANDIDA
*CANDIDIASIS
*LONGITUDINAL method
*CRITICALLY ill
*CRITICAL care medicine
*PATIENTS
*CATASTROPHIC illness
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ISSN
0090-3493
Abstract
The article focuses on a prospective multicenter study which evaluates the usefulness of the Candida score (CS) for discriminating between Candida species colonization and invasive candidiasis (IC) in non-neutropenic critically ill patients in Spain, Argentina and France. The study focused on a total of 1,107 non-neutropenic adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients. It found that IC is highly improbable if a Candida-colonized non-neutropenic critically ill patient has a CS.