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ArticleJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Epidemiological Assessment and Risk Factors for Mortality of Bloodstream Infections by

Jordana Machado Araujo, João Nóbrega de Almeida Junior, Marcello Mihailenko Chaves Magri, Silvia Figueiredo Costa, Thaís Guimarães

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Article in Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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
  2. Voriconazole Activity AgainstMolecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Article
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  4. Blood Stream Infections due toInternational journal of microbiology · 2026
    Article
  5. Nine-Year Surveillance ofJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
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  8. Is candidemia mortality inevitable or a consequence of inadequate guideline adherence?The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
    Observational
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jordana Machado AraujoInfection Control Department, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-900, Brazil.
João Nóbrega de Almeida JuniorCentral Laboratory Division, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-3766-026X
Marcello Mihailenko Chaves MagriInfectious Diseases Department, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7996-8265
Silvia Figueiredo CostaInfectious Diseases Department, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-900, Brazil.
Thaís GuimarãesInfection Control Department, Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05403-900, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-7282-5453
Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Candidemia is one of the healthcare-associated infections that has high mortality. The risk factors that predispose a patient to develop this infection are mostly found in patients of greater severity and COVID-19 contributes to the risk of death. The aim of this study is to evaluate epidemiological characteristics and risk factors for mortality in patients with candidemia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic era. This is a retrospective study conducted at Instituto Central from 2016 to 2020 of patients with candidemia that were evaluated for demographic data, medical history, risk factors, microbiological data, therapeutic measures, complementary exams, device management, and outcome defined by 30-day mortality. A total of 170 episodes were included (58.2% males; mean age of 56 years). The overall incidence density of candidemia per 1000 admissions and per 1000 patient-days was 1.17 and 0.17, respectively, with an increase of 38% in the year 2020. The use of a central venous catheter was the most prevalent (93.5%) condition, followed by the previous use of antibiotics (91.1%). Corticosteroid use ranked seventh (56.4%).

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Candida sp.COVID-19epidemiologymortality

Identifiers

PMID38667939
PMCPMC11051234
OpenAlexW4393860394

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