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Invasive candidiasis is a serious fungal infection caused by Candida. The yeast gets into your bloodstream and spreads to other areas, such as your eyes, heart, brain and kidneys. It’s a common healthcare-associated infection and can cause life-threatening complications.
Fungal infections are any disease or condition you get from a fungus. They usually affect your skin, hair, nails or mucous membranes but they can also infect your lungs or other parts of your body. You’re at higher risk for fungal infections if you have a weakened immune system.
Candidiasis is a fungal infection caused by an overgrowth of a type of yeast that lives on your body (Candida albicans). A candidiasis infection often appears on your skin, vagina or mouth, where Candida naturally lives in small amounts. Healthy bacteria on your body prevent yeast overgrowth.
Invasive candidiasis is caused by a type of yeast (or fungus) of the Candida species that infects your body. This infection can affect your blood, heart, brain, eyes, bones, and other parts of...
Aspergillosis is an infection caused by a type of mold (fungus). The illnesses resulting from aspergillosis infection usually affect the respiratory system, but their signs and severity vary greatly. The mold that triggers the illnesses, aspergillus, is everywhere — indoors and outdoors.
Systemic. Local fungal infections typically involve the skin (see Fungal Skin Infections), mouth (causing stomatitis), and/or vagina (causing candidal vaginitis) and may occur in normal or immunocompromised hosts.
Candidemia is the most common manifestation of invasive candidiasis. The treatment of systemic candidal infection in adults will be reviewed here. Antifungal susceptibility testing and the treatment of candidemia in neonates and children are discussed separately.