Unresolved issues in the diagnosis of catheter related candidemia : A position paper

©The Author 2023. Published by Sociedad Española de Quimioterapia. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)..

The incidence and recent trends of candidemia and the contribution of the COVID-19 pandemic to its evolution are not well documented. The catheter is a major focus of Candida spp. infections, but the methods used to confirm the origin of candidemia are still based on the data generated for bacterial infection. The presence of Candida spp. on the tip of a removed catheter is the gold standard for confirmation but it is not always possible to remove it. Conservative methods, without catheter removal, have not been specifically studied for microorganisms whose times of growth are different from those of bacteria and therefore these results are not applicable to candidemia. The different Candida species do not have a particular tropism for catheter colonization and fungal biomarkers have not yet been able to contribute to the determination of the origin of candidemia. Techniques such Candida T2 Magnetic Resonance (T2MR) has not yet been applied for this purpose. Finally, there is not yet a consensus of how to proceed when Candida spp. is isolated from an extracted catheter and blood cultures obtained from simultaneous peripheral veins are negative. In this lack of firm data, a group of experts has formulated a series of questions trying to answer them based on the literature, indicating the current deficiencies and offering their own opinion. All authors agree with the conclusions of the manuscript and offer it as a position and discussion paper.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

Enthalten in:

Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia - 37(2024), 1 vom: 10. Feb., Seite 1-16

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Soriano-Martín, A [VerfasserIn]
Muñoz, P [VerfasserIn]
García-Rodríguez, J [VerfasserIn]
Cantón, R [VerfasserIn]
Vena, A [VerfasserIn]
Bassetti, M [VerfasserIn]
Bouza, E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Antifungal Agents
Candidemia
Catheter related candidemia
Catheter tip
Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
Endovascular catheter
Journal Article
Review

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Date Completed 29.01.2024

Date Revised 20.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.37201/req/112.2023

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM364452498