Funguria rarely represents true infection in the urinary tract.
Excluding yeast from the catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) surveillance definition reduced CAUTI rates by nearly 25% in community hospitals and at an academic, tertiary-care medical center.
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Dicks KV, Baker AW, Durkin MJ, Lewis SS, Moehring RW, Anderson DJ, Sexton DJ, Chen LF. Are you the author?
Department of Medicine,Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Reference: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Apr;36(4):467-9.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2014.72
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 25782903