Imagine you’re searching for the causative organism of pneumonia, so you decide to order a sputum culture. The culture report shows a profuse candida growth.
What should you do?
Well, Candida albicans (a mouth flora) is a common contaminat of sputum cultures. If you see it in a sputum culture, there’s NO need to worry.
There is NO such thing as “Candida Pneumonia”.