Epidemiology and prognostic factors of nosocomial candidemia in Northeast Brazil: A six-year retrospective study

Candidemia has been considered a persistent public health problem with great impact on hospital costs and high mortality. We aimed to evaluate the epidemiology and prognostic factors of candidemia in a tertiary hospital in Northeast Brazil from January 2011 to December 2016. Demographic and clinical...

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Hauptverfasser: Medeiros, Mariana Araújo Paulo de, Melo, Ana Patrícia Vieira de, Bento, Aurélio de Oliveira, Souza, Luanda Bárbara Ferreira Canário de, Neto, Francisco de Assis Bezerra, Garcia, Jarmilla Bow-Ltaif, Zuza-Alves, Diana Luzia, Francisco, Elaine Cristina, Melo, Analy Salles de Azevedo, Chaves, Guilherme Maranhão
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description Candidemia has been considered a persistent public health problem with great impact on hospital costs and high mortality. We aimed to evaluate the epidemiology and prognostic factors of candidemia in a tertiary hospital in Northeast Brazil from January 2011 to December 2016. Demographic and clinical data of patients were retrospectively obtained from medical records and antifungal susceptibility profiling was performed using the broth microdilution method. A total of 68 episodes of candidemia were evaluated. We found an average incidence of 2.23 episodes /1000 admissions and a 30-day mortality rate of 55.9%. The most prevalent species were Candida albicans (35.3%), Candida tropicalis (27.4%), Candida parapsilosis (21.6%) and Candida glabrata (11.8%). Higher mortality rates were observed in cases of candidemia due to C. albicans (61.1%) and C. glabrata (100%), especially when compared to C. parapsilosis (27.3%). Univariate analysis revealed some variables which significantly increased the probability of death: older age (P = 0.022; odds ratio [OR] = 1.041), severe sepsis (P < 0.001; OR = 8.571), septic shock (P = 0.035; OR = 3.792), hypotension (P = 0.003; OR = 9.120), neutrophilia (P = 0.046; OR = 3.080), thrombocytopenia (P = 0.002; OR = 6.800), mechanical ventilation (P = 0.009; OR = 8.167) and greater number of surgeries (P = 0.037; OR = 1.920). Multivariate analysis showed that older age (P = 0.040; OR = 1.055), severe sepsis (P = 0.009; OR = 9.872) and hypotension (P = 0.031; OR = 21.042) were independently associated with worse prognosis. There was no resistance to amphotericin B, micafungin or itraconazole and a low rate of resistance to fluconazole (5.1%). However, 20.5% of the Candida isolates were susceptible dose-dependent (SDD) to fluconazole and 7.7% to itraconazole. In conclusion, our results could assist in the adoption of strategies to stratify patients at higher risk for developing candidemia and worse prognosis, in addition to improve antifungal management.
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We aimed to evaluate the epidemiology and prognostic factors of candidemia in a tertiary hospital in Northeast Brazil from January 2011 to December 2016. Demographic and clinical data of patients were retrospectively obtained from medical records and antifungal susceptibility profiling was performed using the broth microdilution method. A total of 68 episodes of candidemia were evaluated. We found an average incidence of 2.23 episodes /1000 admissions and a 30-day mortality rate of 55.9%. The most prevalent species were Candida albicans (35.3%), Candida tropicalis (27.4%), Candida parapsilosis (21.6%) and Candida glabrata (11.8%). Higher mortality rates were observed in cases of candidemia due to C. albicans (61.1%) and C. glabrata (100%), especially when compared to C. parapsilosis (27.3%). Univariate analysis revealed some variables which significantly increased the probability of death: older age (P = 0.022; odds ratio [OR] = 1.041), severe sepsis (P &lt; 0.001; OR = 8.571), septic shock (P = 0.035; OR = 3.792), hypotension (P = 0.003; OR = 9.120), neutrophilia (P = 0.046; OR = 3.080), thrombocytopenia (P = 0.002; OR = 6.800), mechanical ventilation (P = 0.009; OR = 8.167) and greater number of surgeries (P = 0.037; OR = 1.920). Multivariate analysis showed that older age (P = 0.040; OR = 1.055), severe sepsis (P = 0.009; OR = 9.872) and hypotension (P = 0.031; OR = 21.042) were independently associated with worse prognosis. There was no resistance to amphotericin B, micafungin or itraconazole and a low rate of resistance to fluconazole (5.1%). However, 20.5% of the Candida isolates were susceptible dose-dependent (SDD) to fluconazole and 7.7% to itraconazole. 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subjects Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Amphotericin B
Analysis
Analysis of Variance
Anidulafungin
Antifungal agents
Antifungal Agents - therapeutic use
Antiparasitic agents
Biology and Life Sciences
Blood
Brazil - epidemiology
Candida albicans
Candida albicans - drug effects
Candida albicans - growth & development
Candida albicans - pathogenicity
Candida glabrata - drug effects
Candida glabrata - growth & development
Candida glabrata - pathogenicity
Candida parapsilosis - drug effects
Candida parapsilosis - growth & development
Candida parapsilosis - pathogenicity
Candida tropicalis - drug effects
Candida tropicalis - growth & development
Candida tropicalis - pathogenicity
Candidemia
Candidemia - diagnosis
Candidemia - drug therapy
Candidemia - epidemiology
Candidemia - mortality
Candidiasis
Care and treatment
Caspofungin
Criminal investigation
Cross Infection - diagnosis
Cross Infection - drug therapy
Cross Infection - epidemiology
Cross Infection - mortality
Demographics
Drug Resistance, Fungal
Epidemiology
Female
Fluconazole
Fungicides
Health care costs
Hospitals
Humans
Hypertension - diagnosis
Hypertension - physiopathology
Hypotension
Incidence
Infections
Internal medicine
Itraconazole
Laboratories
Male
Mechanical ventilation
Medical prognosis
Medical records
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Micafungin
Middle Aged
Mortality
Multivariate analysis
Neutrophilia
Nosocomial infection
Patients
Profiling
Prognosis
Public health
Research and Analysis Methods
Respiration, Artificial - adverse effects
Respiration, Artificial - statistics & numerical data
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Sepsis
Septic shock
Shock
Shock, Septic - diagnosis
Shock, Septic - drug therapy
Shock, Septic - epidemiology
Shock, Septic - mortality
Surgery
Surveillance
Survival Analysis
Tertiary Care Centers
Thrombocytopenia
Thrombocytopenia - diagnosis
Thrombocytopenia - physiopathology
Ventilation
Vital signs
title Epidemiology and prognostic factors of nosocomial candidemia in Northeast Brazil: A six-year retrospective study
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