Candidemia in the Growing Opioid Epidemic: A Distinct and Emerging Entity.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Andes, David
- Source
- Clinical Infectious Diseases. Oct2020, Vol. 71 Issue 7, p1738-1740. 3p.
- Subject
- *EPIDEMICS
*OPIOID abuse
*CANDIDEMIA
*DISEASE risk factors
- Language
- ISSN
- 1058-4838
The article discusses that the opioid addiction has emerged as an alarming public health crisis in the U.S., claiming the lives of people over the past decade and increasing annually more than 5-fold over this time. Topics discussed the rates of IVDU-associated candidemia observed in the multistate CDC surveillance mirror recent smaller, single state surveillance data for both Colorado and Massachusetts.