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Observational studyMedicine2019

Invasive candidiasis: Risk factor for mortality in a pediatric tertiary care hospital in south of Brazil.

Luiza Souza Rodrigues, Fabio Araujo Motta, Gledson Luiz Picharski, Thaís Muniz Vasconcelos, Marinei Campos Riccieri, Libera Maria Dalla-Costa

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Observational study in Medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
14citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Brazilian guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis in adults and children.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
    Guideline
  3. Candidemia in a tertiary hospital in Southern Brazil.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2026
    Article
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  5. Azole Resistance andJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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  8. Anti-Biofilm Activity of Cocultimycin A againstInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  11. Genotypic Diversity ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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  14. First Genome Sequences of Two Multidrug-ResistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Luiza Souza RodriguesFaculdades Pequeno Príncipe.
Fabio Araujo MottaHospital Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Gledson Luiz PicharskiInstituto de Pesquisa Pelé Pequeno Príncipe.
Thaís Muniz VasconcelosFaculdades Pequeno Príncipe.
Marinei Campos RiccieriFaculdades Pequeno Príncipe.
Libera Maria Dalla-CostaFaculdades Pequeno Príncipe.
Hospital Erasto Gaertner · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInvasive candidiasis (IC) is a major cause of morbimortality in children. Previous studies described the clinical characteristics and risk factors for this infection; however, limited data are available on the predictors of mortality in these patients. In this context, we evaluated the risk factors associated with death due to IC in a pediatric tertiary care hospital in South of Brazil.

methodsThis is a retrospective, cross-sectional, observational, and analytical study of a series of pediatric patients with clinical and laboratory diagnosis of IC from March 2014 to September 2017. Univariate and multivariate analysis were performed to estimate the association between the characteristics of the patients and death.

resultsA total of 94 cases of IC were included. The incidence was 1.13 cases per 1000 patients/d, with a mortality rate of 14%. There was a predominance of non-albicans Candida (71.3%) in IC cases and, although there is no species difference in mortality rates, biofilm formation was associated with increased mortality. Clinical characteristics such as male sex, stay in the intensive care unit, and thrombocytopenia; comorbidities such as cardiological disease and renal insufficiency; and risks such as mechanical ventilation and dialysis were associated with increased mortality.

conclusionData from this study suggest that biofilm formation by Candida sp. is associated with increased mortality, and this is the first study to correlate the male sex and cardiological disease as risk factors for death in pediatric IC patients.

Indexed as

AdolescentBiofilmsBrazilCandidaCandidiasis, InvasiveChildChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHospital MortalityHumansIncidenceInfantInfant, NewbornMaleRetrospective Studies

Identifiers

PMID31169713
PMCPMC6571356
OpenAlexW2983504822

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