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

Table 5

Year	Place of study/researcher	Patient characters	Predominant Candida species	95% CI of prevalence	Reference number
2001	Chennai (Menon et al.)	46 Candida isolates from HIV positive patients	C. albicans (73.9%)	0.61 to 0.86	[35]
			C. tropicalis (21.7%)	0.14 to 0.39
			C. dubliniensis (0%)
2004	Delhi (Lattif et al.)	75 Candida isolates from HIV positive patients	C. albicans (86%)	0.76 to 0.92	[36]
			C. parapsilosis (8%)	0.04 to 0.16
			C. glabrata (3%)	0.01 to 0.09
			C. krusei (3%)	0.01 to 0.09
			C. dubliniensis (0%)
2009	Mumbai (Baradkar and Kumar)	50 Candida isolates from HIV positive patients	C. albicans (70%)	0.56 to 0.81	[37]
			C. parapsilosis (15%)	0.07 to 0.26
			C. glabrata (7.5%)	0.04 to 0.19
			C. tropicalis (5%)	0.02 to 0.16
			C. dubliniensis (2.5%)	0.003 to 0.105
2013	Lucknow (Maurya et al.)	84 Candida isolates from HIV positive patients	C. albicans (95.2%)	0.88 to 0.98	[31]
			C. tropicalis (4.76%)	0.02 to 0.12
			C. dubliniensis (0%)