A 64-year-old woman with a mechanical mitral valve prosthesis developed late-onset
Candida endocarditis. Blood cultures grew Candida glabrata and Candida krusei …

A model of experimental disseminated candidiasis was developed in the guinea pig;
Candida albicans was injected intraperitoneally or intravenously. The kidney was the most …

THE incidence of candida infections is reported to be increasing. 1, 2 Although the organism
may be part of the normal flora of mucous membranes of healthy persons infections with this …

Systemic candidiasis developed in a seven-week-old premature baby after 6 weeks
treatment with antibiotics for suspected septicemia. At that time the echocardiogram showed …

A case is reported in a 41-year-old woman from Ohio, USA, who developed congestive heart
failure 3 weeks after undergoing aortic valve replacement in 1994. Blood cultures grew C …

A 30-y-old man with Crohn's disease developed fungemia with Candida albicans.
Subsequently, during therapy with fluconazole, Candida glabrata was repeatedly isolated …

We describe a 54-year-old man who had an ascending aortic prosthetic graft and a porcine
aortic valve prosthesis that were infected by Candida albicans. This infection led to the …

Fungal endocarditis is not rare. It usually develops in patients with abnormal or surgically
traumatized hearts, to whose blood fungi have gained access, perhaps during temporary …

Three cases of fungal endocarditis are described, each following a homograft valve
replacement for aortic stenosis. The causative organism was C. albicans. The characteristic …

A recent report in Clinical Microbiology and Infection described the successful treatment with
caspofungin of a patient with oropharyngeal candidiasis caused by strains of Candida …