Respiratory tract colonization by Candida species portends worse outcomes in immunocompromised patients

KM Pendleton, RP Dickson, DW Newton… - Clinical pulmonary …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
The significance and clinical management of Candida colonization of the respiratory tract
are ill-defined. We now report the frequency of Candida species from the lower respiratory
tract in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients (HSCT) undergoing bronchoscopy with
broncheoalveolar lavage for pneumonitis after HSCT. The University of Michigan Clinical
Microbiology Laboratory Database was queried for all respiratory cultures positive for
Candida species between 2000 and 2012. We concurrently performed a retrospective …