
Although this patient had none of these common risk factors associated with Candida empyema, she did have other factors predisposing her to fungal colonization and subsequent infection.
Naasha Talati, MD, MSCR, is an associate professor of clinical medicine at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She specializes in infectious diseases and is the antibiotic stewardship director and associate hospital epidemiologist at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia.

Although this patient had none of these common risk factors associated with Candida empyema, she did have other factors predisposing her to fungal colonization and subsequent infection.