Published in:
01-08-2012 | Editorial
Candida colonization in ventilated ICU patients: no longer a bystander!
Authors:
Jean-Damien Ricard, Damien Roux
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 8/2012
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Excerpt
The role and consequences of the presence of
Candida spp. in the lungs of mechanically ventilated patients are receiving growing attention as we gain insight into the interaction between fungi and bacteria in diseases in general [
1] and in lung infection in particular [
2]. In a 2009 issue of
Intensive Care Medicine, Meersseman et al. provided us with convincing data on the absence of
Candida pneumonia in the ICU despite a high rate of colonization (53 %) [
3]. These authors could however only speculate on the significance of the presence of
Candida spp. in their patients. We ended our accompanying editorial by stating that
Candida lung colonization may have a significant role in bacterial pneumonia development [
4]. This statement was prompted by several clinical and experimental clues. …
