Prevalence of blood stream infections among children in tertiary care hospital: detection of species and antifungal susceptibility.

Background: Of all blood stream infections (BSI), candidaemia poses the greatest threat with a high fatality rate among children. There has been an increase in the number of reports of non- species and antifungal resistance has progressively emerge.

Aim: The present study aimed to demonstrate the prevalence of candidaemia among children and to characterize the involved species and their susceptibility to antifungal agents.