| the incidence of hospital fungal infections--yeast fungaemia. | in order to determine the incidence and the causative agents of fungaemia, a survey was undertaken of blood culture specimens received from the bloemfontein academic hospitals. over a period of 1 year, 5,017 successive blood cultures were examined; 1,030 (20.5%) had growth of which 106 (2.1%) yielded yeasts. candida albicans (42%), c. tropicalis (26%) and c. parapsilosis (20%) were the species most frequently isolated. fungaemia occurred most often after broad-spectrum antimicrobial therapy and ... | 1991 | 2017738 |