The current treatment landscape: candidiasis

Impact of systemic antifungal therapy on the detection of Candida species in blood cultures in clinical cases of candidemia

(2016) S. Bailly et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Systemic antifungal therapy for proven or suspected invasive candidiasis: the AmarCAND 2 study

(2016) Olivier Leroy et al.   Annals of Intensive Care

Failure of Empirical Systemic Antifungal Therapy in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients

(2015) Sébastien Bailly et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Epidemiology and Outcome of Fungemia in a Cancer Cohort of the Infectious Diseases Group (IDG) of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC 65031)

(2015) Oliver A. Cornely et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Candidiasis: 2016 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2015) Peter G. Pappas et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Variable incidence of candidemia in patients admitted to ICUs or medical wards of large tertiary-care Italian hospitals

(2015) C. Tascini et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Variations in Organism-Specific Severe Sepsis Mortality in the United States

(2015) Chizobam Ani et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Whatʼs new in antifungals

(2015) Nathan P. Wiederhold et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Are prophylactic antifungals in highly colonized patients safe and effective?

(2015) Matteo Bassetti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Antifungal de-escalation was not associated with adverse outcome in critically ill patients treated for invasive candidiasis: post hoc analyses of the AmarCAND2 study data

(2015) Sébastien Bailly et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

A multicenter multinational study of abdominal candidiasis: epidemiology, outcomes and predictors of mortality

(2015) Matteo Bassetti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Introduction of an antifungal stewardship programme targeting high-cost antifungals at a tertiary hospital in Cambridge, England

(2015) C. Micallef et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Candidabiomarkers in patients with candidaemia and bacteraemia

(2015) M. Carmen Martínez-Jiménez et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Overview of Fungal Infections - The Italian Experience

(2015) Elda Righi et al.   SEMINARS IN RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Declining Incidence of Candidemia and the Shifting Epidemiology of Candida Resistance in Two US Metropolitan Areas, 2008–2013: Results from Population-Based Surveillance

(2015) Angela Ahlquist Cleveland et al.   PLoS One

ESCMID† and ECMM‡ joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis 2013

(2014) O.A. Cornely et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Impact of Therapeutic Strategies on the Prognosis of Candidemia in the ICU*

(2014) Mireia Puig-Asensio et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Echinocandin resistance

(2014) Maiken C. Arendrup et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

What’s new in the clinical and diagnostic management of invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients

(2014) Cristóbal León et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

A multicenter study of septic shock due to candidemia: outcomes and predictors of mortality

(2014) Matteo Bassetti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Candida colonization index and subsequent infection in critically ill surgical patients: 20 years later

(2014) Philippe Eggimann et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Worrisome trends in incidence and mortality of candidemia in intensive care units (Paris area, 2002–2010)

(2014) Olivier Lortholary et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Consensus guidelines for the treatment of yeast infections in the haematology, oncology and intensive care setting, 2014

(2014) S. C. Chen et al.   INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL

Antifungal stewardship: Implementation in a French teaching hospital

(2014) S. Alfandari et al.   MEDECINE ET MALADIES INFECTIEUSES

Characteristic and clinical relevance of Candida mannan test in the diagnosis of probable invasive candidiasis

(2014) B. F. F. Chumpitazi et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

Multistate Point-Prevalence Survey of Health Care–Associated Infections

(2014) Shelley S. Magill et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Procalcitonin as a marker of Candida species detection by blood culture and polymerase chain reaction in septic patients

(2014) Andrea Cortegiani et al.   BMC Anesthesiology

β-Glucan Antigenemia Anticipates Diagnosis of Blood Culture–Negative Intraabdominal Candidiasis

(2013) Frederic Tissot et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Empirical Fluconazole versus Placebo for Intensive Care Unit Patients

(2013) Mindy G. Schuster   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Interlaboratory Variability of Caspofungin MICs for Candida spp. Using CLSI and EUCAST Methods: Should the Clinical Laboratory Be Testing This Agent?

(2013) A. Espinel-Ingroff et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Finding the “Missing 50%” of Invasive Candidiasis: How Nonculture Diagnostics Will Improve Understanding of Disease Spectrum and Transform Patient Care

(2013) Cornelius J. Clancy et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Epidemiological changes with potential implication for antifungal prescription recommendations for fungaemia: data from a nationwide fungaemia surveillance programme

(2013) M.C. Arendrup et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

An Italian consensus for invasive candidiasis management (ITALIC)

(2013) L. Scudeller et al.   INFECTION

A 6-year antifungal stewardship programme in a teaching hospital

(2013) V. Mondain et al.   INFECTION

A research agenda on the management of intra-abdominal candidiasis: results from a consensus of multinational experts

(2013) Matteo Bassetti et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Epidemiology, Species Distribution, Antifungal Susceptibility, and Outcome of Candidemia across Five Sites in Italy and Spain

(2013) M. Bassetti et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Impact of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Comprehensive Care Bundle on Management of Candidemia

(2013) Allen Antworth et al.   PHARMACOTHERAPY

Septic Shock Attributed to Candida Infection: Importance of Empiric Therapy and Source Control

(2012) M. Kollef et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Impact of Treatment Strategy on Outcomes in Patients with Candidemia and Other Forms of Invasive Candidiasis: A Patient-Level Quantitative Review of Randomized Trials

(2012) D. R. Andes et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ESCMID* *This guideline was presented in part at ECCMID 2011. European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: non-neutropenic adult patients

(2012) O.A. Cornely et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

ESCMID* *This guideline was presented in part at ECCMID 2011. European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: diagnostic procedures

(2012) M. Cuenca-Estrella et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

A non-compulsory stewardship programme for the management of antifungals in a university-affiliated hospital

(2012) F. López-Medrano et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Systemic antifungal therapy in critically ill patients without invasive fungal infection*

(2012) Elie Azoulay et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Large Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center: Cost Analysis Before, During, and After a 7-Year Program

(2012) Harold C. Standiford et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Characteristics and determinants of outcome of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections in intensive care units: the EUROBACT International Cohort Study

(2012) Alexis Tabah et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

Frequency of Decreased Susceptibility and Resistance to Echinocandins among Fluconazole-Resistant Bloodstream Isolates of Candida glabrata

(2012) M. A. Pfaller et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A matched-control evaluation of an antifungal bundle in the intensive care unit at a university teaching hospital

(2012) Anthony J. Guarascio et al.   International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy

Clinical factors associated with a Candida albicansGerm Tube Antibody positive test in Intensive Care Unit patients

(2011) Javier Pemán et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Recomendaciones sobre el tratamiento de la candidiasis invasiva y otras infecciones por levaduras de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica (SEIMC). Actualización 2011

(2011) José María Aguado et al.   ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA

Evaluation of antifungal therapy in patients with candidaemia based on susceptibility testing results: implications for antimicrobial stewardship programmes

(2011) D. N. Shah et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Epidemiology, Species Distribution, Antifungal Susceptibility and Outcome of Nosocomial Candidemia in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Italy

(2011) Matteo Bassetti et al.   PLoS One

Recent Exposure to Caspofungin or Fluconazole Influences the Epidemiology of Candidemia: a Prospective Multicenter Study Involving 2,441 Patients

(2010) Olivier Lortholary et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Secular trend in candidemia and the use of fluconazole in Finland, 2004-2007

(2010) Eira Poikonen et al.   BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Candida bloodstream infections in intensive care units: Analysis of the extended prevalence of infection in intensive care unit study*

(2010) Daniel H. Kett et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Impact of Education and an Antifungal Stewardship Program for Candidiasis at a Thai Tertiary Care Center

(2010) Anucha Apisarnthanarak et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Pulmonary Epithelial Lining Fluid Concentrations after Use of Systemic Amphotericin B Lipid Formulations

(2009) S. Weiler et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Implementation of Practice Guidelines for Antifungal Therapy in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit and Its Impact on Use and Costs

(2009) Stefanie Swoboda et al.   CHEMOTHERAPY

Usefulness of the “Candida score” for discriminating between Candida colonization and invasive candidiasis in non-neutropenic critically ill patients: A prospective multicenter study

(2009) Cristóbal León et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Incidence of candidaemia and relationship with fluconazole use in an intensive care unit

(2009) M. Bassetti et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY