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Volume 20, Number 11—November 2014

Research

Drug-Resistant Candida glabrata Infection in Cancer Patients

Dimitrios Farmakiotis1, Jeffrey J. Tarrand, and Dimitrios P. KontoyiannisComments to Author 
Author affiliations: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA (D. Farmakiotis, J.J. Tarrand, D.P. Kontoyiannis); Baylor College of Medicine, Houston (D. Farmakiotis)

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Table 1

Basic demographic, clinical, and laboratory characteristics for 144 cancer patients with 146 episodes of Candida glabrata fungemia, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA, March 2005–September 2013*

Characteristic No. (%)
Host
Age, y, mean (± SD), range 55.5 (± 14.52), 12–85
Male sex 74 (51.38)
Solid tumor† 98 (68.05)
Hematologic malignancy 46 (31.95)
Leukemia 22 (15.3)
Acute myeloid leukemia 17 (11.81)
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia 5 (3.47)
Lymphoma 14 (9.72)
Multiple myeloma 4 (2.77)
Myelodysplastic syndrome 2 (1.38)
Myelohyperplastic syndrome 4 (2.77)
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
16 (11.11)
Clinical disease
Intensive care unit stay 59 (40.41)
Mechanical ventilation 27 (18.49)
Presence of a central line 131 (89.72)
Total parenteral nutrition
 36 (24.65)
Recent (within 1 mo before the day of candidemia) drug exposures
Chemotherapy 69 (47.26)
Any corticosteroids 85 (58.21)
Antibacterial drugs 144 (98.63)
Azoles 44 (30.13)
Echinocandins
 32 (21.91)
Laboratory findings
Neutropenia, cells/μL
<500 28 (19.17)
100–500 9 (6.16)
<100 19 (13.14)
Lymphopenia, cells/μL
<500 86 (58.9)
<100 30 (20.54)
Monocytopenia, <100 cells/μL 39 (26.71)

*All parameters were present on the day of candidemia, defined as the day of blood culture collection. Data are presented as absolute numbers (%) unless otherwise indicated for normally distributed variables or median numbers (25th–75th percentile) for variables that were not normally distributed.
†Tumor types were as follows: 47 (32.63%) gastrointestinal, 12 (8.33%) gynecologic, 9 (6.25%) genitourinary, 6 (4.16%) breast, 6 (4.16%) lung, 3 (2.08%) thyroid, 4 (2.77%) sarcomas, 3 (2.08%) head and neck, 2 (1.38%) central nervous system, and 6 (4.16%) other.

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1Current affiliation: Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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