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Description

Leroy et al classified an infection with a Candida species as isolated Candidemia or invasive based on clinical and microbiological findings. The authors are from multiple hospitals in France participating in the AmarCand Study Group.


 

Parameters:

(1) blood culture

(2) culture from a normally sterile site

(3) signs of infection at site(s)

Term

Blood Culture

Culture of Normally Sterile Site

Signs of Infection at Site

isolated candidemia

>= 1 positive

negative

NA

invasive candidiasis with candidemia

>= 1 positive

>= 1 positive

present

invasive candidiasis without documented candidemia

0 positive (all negative)

>= 1 positive

present

 

where:

• Normally sterile sites include peritoneal fluid, lung parenchyma, etc.

• A central venous catheter (CVC) was not considered a sterile site.

• An isolate from the blood and normally sterile site should be the same.

 

Additional terms that can be used:

 

Term

Features

colonization

persistently positive cultures of a site not blood AND not normally sterile

dissemination

positive cultures from multiple, noncontiguous normally sterile sites

contamination

positive culture of blood or nonsterile site caused by inclusion of material from a nonsterile, colonized site

 


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