Candida Species Prevalence Profile in HIV Seropositive Patients from a Major Tertiary Care Hospital in New Delhi, India

Table 4

Sample distribution and Candida profile of study subjects. .

		Number	Percentage
Type of specimens collected ()	Oral swabs	120	34
	Sputum	56	15.9
	Urine	80	22.7
	Blood	96	27.3
		Direct microscopy, number (%)	Culture, number ( %)
Different clinical specimens showing Candida isolates ()	Oral swabs	38 (31.6)	82 (68.3)
	Sputum	14 (25)	26 (46.4)
	Urine	16 (20)	18 (22.5)
	Blood	0	2 (2.1)
		Number	Percentage	95% CI of prevalence
Candida species isolated ()	C. albicans	64	50	0.414, 0.585
	C. glabrata	22	17.1	0.116, 0.246
	C. dubliniensis	16	12.5	0.078, 0.193
	C. parapsilosis	10	7.8	0.043, 0.137
	C. krusei	6	4.6	0.021, 0.098
	C. tropicalis	6	4.6	0.021, 0.098
	C. kefyr	4	3.1	0.012, 0.077
		Number	Percentage
Number of Candida isolates in recruited cases ()	Single isolate	48	40
	Double isolate	40	33.4
	No isolate	32	26.7