Journal of Clinical & Experimental Pathology
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Editorial

Epidemiology of Candidaemia: A Prospective Comparison between Invasive Candidiasis in Italy and All Over the World.

Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases,Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

*Corresponding Author:

Maria Teresa Mascellino
Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases
Sapienza University, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5
00185 Rome, Italy
Tel: 390649970880
Fax: 390649972628
E-mail: mariateresa.mascellino@uniroma1.it

Received date: January 09, 2016 Accepted date: January 09, 2016 Published date: January 10, 2016

Citation: Mascellino MT (2016) Epidemiology of Candidaemia: A Prospective Comparison between Invasive Candidiasis in Italy and All Over the World. J Clin Exp Pathol 6:e120. doi:10.4172/2161-0681.1000e120

Copyright: © 2016 Mascellino MT. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Candida is an important cause of bloodstream infections (BSI), causing significant mortality and morbidity in health care settings [1]. Invasive candidiasis (IC) is a serious disease in hospitalized critically ill and immune-compromised patients [2]. The advances of the supportive therapies, of the complexity of surgical procedures, of the number of elderly people in our society and of the changes in patient demographic characteristics have progressively expanded the population at high risk for fungal diseases. Consequently, the prevalence of Candida infection has increased leading to a higher frequency of invasive candidiasis and candidaemia [3,4]. Bloodstream infections sustained by Candida species are a major cause of morbidity, hospital length of stay, cost of care and mortality in hospitalized patients, the latter ranking 20-30% of all nosocomial BSIs [5,6] or even more [7].