Candida albicans and related species are ubiquitous inhabitants of the normal human body.
These fungi can often be cultured from skin, genitalia, oral cavity, and intestinal and
respiratory tracts. 1-3 Although localized infections of oral cavity, vagina, rectum, skin, nails,
lungs, endocardium, and meninges have been frequently reported 4-14 and systemic
infections in debilitated infants are not uncommon, 15-18 the clinical features of
disseminated disease in adults have only recently been described. 19-22 Numerous …