Spectrum: Local Antimicrobial Stewardship, for Prisma Health Children’s Hospital-Midlands

Candida albicans

Precautions

Standard Precautions
Standard Precautions

Susceptibilities

Susceptibilities

General Susceptibilities

General Information

First Line Treatment

First Line Treatment

  • Anidulafungin

  • Fluconazole (once species identified)

Alternate Treatment

Alternate Treatment

  • Amphotericin B

  • Voriconazole

Pathogen information

Pathogen information

Fungus - Budding Yeast, germ-tube positive

Epidemiology

Epidemiology
  • Normally human flora

Associated syndromes

Associated syndromes

  • Candidemia, disseminated candidiasis

  • Catheter-related bloodstream infections

  • Thrush

  • Esophagitis

  • UTI

  • Vulvovaganitis

  • Hepatosplenic

  • Endopthalmitis (rare)