Comparison of Two Diagnostic Tests in Patients With Suspected Invasive Candidiasis in Internal Medicine Wards and Who Are Currently Timely Treated With Micafungin

Inclusion Criteria

• •Age 18 years
• •Patients giving their informed consent to participate to the study and to the use of their health data
• •Patients with two or more SIRS criteria (hyperthermia, or hypothermia, tachycardia, tachypnea, leucocytosis or leukopenia )
• •Patients treated with antibiotic therapy in the last 4 weeks and with central venous catheter
• •Patients with at least one of these conditions ( cortisone therapy/ immunosuppressive agents, total parenteral nutrition, urinary catheter, anticancer chemotherapy and major surgery in the last 3 weeks, acute pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus, liver diseases, dialysis)